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  • She drew back from everyone a bit, spending a lot of time next door with Boo where they drank tea, discussed Zen Buddhism, and read dream books together.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, one of them, an incredibly gaunt man with a long drooping mustache, runs in front of the camera and begins to shout: "a ma la ge zen ba dam gal nun ka aria su su na an da….†   (source)
  • Now in his early fifties, Conway walks slowly with a cane, but has a handsome, weathered face, a Zen-like calm and a tough, independent streak that keeps him going, against the odds.†   (source)
  • It's like Zen, gramma.†   (source)
  • …preserved by the Zensunni Wanderers from the first, second, and third Islamic movements; the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found…†   (source)
  • One of the most important is the Sanskrit dhy_na, mispronounced in Chinese as "Chan" and again mispronounced in Japanese as "Zen."†   (source)
  • That painting in the Zen style is really something, don't you think?"†   (source)
  • No, sir, no other rabbits, is a not a go for soon a rabbits, all stay 'ere are my friends, a save a me a very good a my life, zen 'ow can I if a she mek me?" twittered the mouse.†   (source)
  • Institutional food required a Zen outlook.†   (source)
  • A new, uncluttered, Zen-like life, in which I spend nothing.†   (source)
  • That accent didn't belong on anyone's servant, let alone a nonciti- zen's.†   (source)
  • Such being the case, he made the decision on his own, informing Vergennes that as he had been "restored to the character of a private citi-zen," he would depart.†   (source)
  • Her voice was still soft with a Zen-like sense of peace.†   (source)
  • It's really kind of Zen. man.†   (source)
  • They walked the streets both day and night, in dark hoods and bra- zen masks.†   (source)
  • My attitude had become one of almost Zen-like acceptance and resignation.†   (source)
  • A barbecue cook must have an intimate understanding of his work, the physics of fire and convection, the hard science of meat and heat and smoke--and then forget it all to achieve a sort of gut-level, Zen instinct for the process.†   (source)
  • Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip, and I am now lecturing to the faculty, their wives, and a few oppressively deep-type undergraduates every Friday on Zen and Ma-hayana Buddhism.†   (source)
  • He had his students read all the books they could read about Zen, science fiction, extrasensory perception, mental telepathy and yoga.†   (source)
  • It has been a long while since I've looked at the things I said … " "I thought them admirably suited to the subject, little Zen-like aphorisms for each photograph."†   (source)
  • He titled the book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
  • A koan is like a riddle that's supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism.†   (source)
  • Not wondering about impossible things is how I've managed to be relatively Zen.†   (source)
  • I renounced Zen Gnosticism about the same time Helenda divorced me.†   (source)
  • So, I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things.†   (source)
  • Yet in the center of all this boredom is the very thing Zen Buddhism seeks to teach.†   (source)
  • Linna, who had become an ardent Zen Gnostic in the years between, cried and left early.†   (source)
  • Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop.†   (source)
  • The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.†   (source)
  • I was leaning back, being all Zen, when I saw one of the strange kids stir and sit up.†   (source)
  • He blurted out this last part, not very Zen at all, as he rushed to fit it in as the bell rang.†   (source)
  • So as far as the sisters were concerned, I was losing it over Con Air, which was very un-Zen of me.†   (source)
  • I was leaning back, being all Zen, when I saw one of the strange kids stir and sit up.†   (source)
  • With prison Zen, I waited for whatever was going to happen next.†   (source)
  • On instinct'call it Zen mode'I reached down and tried the knob.†   (source)
  • "Let's look at one sentence on page ninety-four of this very entertaining introduction to Zen that I had you read this week.†   (source)
  • "Rogerson," the blond guy said, setting the bowl down beside one of those miniature Zen gardens with the rocks and sand, and standing up.†   (source)
  • I do not know anything about Zen or things that the Chinese or Indians do as part of their religion, but one of the girls from the party with the tattoo and belly button ring has been a Buddhist since July.†   (source)
  • The Zen Gnostics would say that this emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experience.†   (source)
  • If Mars was known for anything in the Worldweb, it was for hunting in the Mariner Valley, Schrauder's Zen Massif in Hellas Basin, and the Olympus Command School.†   (source)
  • After all, it's exactly this stuckness that Zen Buddhists go to so much trouble to induce; through koans, deep breathing, sitting still and the like.†   (source)
  • Ten years after the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the Ancient Greek perspective is certainly appropriate.†   (source)
  • The Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer, appearing on HTV talk shows and searching for my Places of Power with all of the devoutness of a pre-Hegira Muslim pilgrimaging to Mecca.†   (source)
  • Kassad did not have to travel to Mariner Valley to learn about hunting and being hunted, he had no interest in Zen Gnosticism, and as a teenager he felt nothing but contempt for the uniformed cadets who came from every part of the Web to train for FORCE.†   (source)
  • When the Zen monk Joshu was asked whether a dog had a Buddha nature he said "Mu," meaning that if he answered either way he was answering incorrectly.†   (source)
  • Queue was careful in the Old Settlers" Museum, keeping Johnny in sight but checking his own back as well. i was dressed in a Zen Gnostic's meditation jumper, isolation visor and all, and I never looked their way as I circled to the museum outportal and "cast directly to God's Grove.†   (source)
  • Zen has something to say about boredom.†   (source)
  • King Billy is said to remind anthropologists of the worry dolls of the Outback Kinshasa, to make Zen Gnostics recall the Pitiful Buddha after the temple fire on Tai Zhin, and to send media historians rushing to their archives to check photos of an ancient flat-film movie actor named Charles Laughton.†   (source)
  • The success of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance seems the result of this culture-bearing phenomenon.†   (source)
  • At about 8:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 17, 1979, in San Francisco, he left the Zen Center, where he was a student, to visit a friend's house a block away on Haight Street.†   (source)
  • Location did not seem to matter: the Weimont family lived in one of the outlying villas but Sira Rob never stirred from her tower studio near the center of town; two of the victims disappeared alone, at night, apparently while walking in the Zen Garden, but Chancellor Lehman's daughter had private bodyguards yet vanished while alone in a bathroom on the seventh floor of Sad King Billy's palace.†   (source)
  • Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion.†   (source)
  • Forged in Jesuit logic and tempered in the cold bath of science, ! nevertheless understood at that second the ancient obsession of the God-fearing for another kind of fear: the thrill of exorcism, the mindless whirl of Dervish possession, the puppet-dance ritual of Tarot, and the almost erotic surrender of sance, speaking in tongues, and Zen Gnostic trance.†   (source)
  • She was seventy years old and still she had never traveled offworld, used a fatline, tasted any alcoholic drink except wine, interfaced with an empathy surgeon, stepped through a farcaster door, smoked a cannahis stick, received gene tailoring, plugged into a stimsim, received any formal schooling, taken any RNA medication, heard of Zen Gnostics or the Shrike Church, or flown any vehicle except an ancient Vikken skimmer belonging to her family.†   (source)
  • Zen Buddhists talk about "just sitting," a meditative practice in which the idea of a duality of self and object does not dominate one's consciousness.†   (source)
  • It's the basis of Zen practice.†   (source)
  • There are three Zen Gnostic assemblies and four High Muslim mosques in the town, but the real houses of worship are the countless saloons and brothels, the huge marketplaces handling the fiberplastic shipments from the south, and the Shrike Cult temples where lost souls hide their suicidal hopelessness behind a shield of shallow mysticism.†   (source)
  • I suppose if I were a novelist rather than a Chautauqua orator I'd try to "develop the characters" of John and Sylvia and Chris with action-packed scenes that would also reveal "inner meanings" of Zen and maybe Art and maybe even Motorcycle Maintenance.†   (source)
  • The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen.†   (source)
  • This is what Jesse Detwiler said, the garbage archaeologist who'd addressed the massed members about an hour after the tremor—an address that did not go down well with the grilled squab and baby Zen vegetables.†   (source)
  • Now, we move into Zen mode.†   (source)
  • Think Zen.†   (source)
  • Much, much more important, though, Seymour had already begun to believe (and I agreed with him, as far as I was able to see the point) that education by any name would smell as sweet, and maybe much sweeter, if it didn't begin with a quest for knowledge at all but with a quest, as Zen would put it, for no-knowledge.†   (source)
  • The test that pretty much would decide the entire fate of both my GPA and my future was on Monday, and according to Gervais'whose method was proven'it was time to shift into what he called 'Zen mode.†   (source)
  • I didn't realize it, but I had really been raised to follow the ethos of Stoicism—the Greco-Roman answer to Zen.†   (source)
  • NEWLY ZEN thanks to Yoga Janet, well fed by Pop, and now proficient in concrete-mixing as well as rudimentary electrical work, I felt as if I were making the most of this prison thing.†   (source)
  • Because of my certainty that Nate had taken off'even before I knew it for sure' I'd actually ended up following Gervais's Zen-mode plan, if only because I'd been too distracted to study the night before.†   (source)
  • Zen?†   (source)
  • 'Zen mode,' Gervais said.†   (source)
  • She would become a Catholic before she died, but she would choose to be buried in the Tokeiji Temple, a Zen center founded in 1285 by a monk who felt sorry for women with cruel husbands and decreed that any of them who took asylum in his temple as nuns could consider themselves divorced.†   (source)
  • Zen vy lie?†   (source)
  • Zen I become ze Pie Prince of ze South!†   (source)
  • And ze Creole, he look polite and he wreenkle hees forehead lak he try to remembaire, and zen he smile and say: 'General Lee!†   (source)
  • "Well," said he finally, "le's have nozzer drink, zen."†   (source)
  • , 'but' he says, 'I'm 'spectable cit'zen an' I wanna drink an' purtydamnsoon, too.'†   (source)
  • "Well, zen," said the man, resolutely, "I'm go'†   (source)
  • 'I say, if they comfort thee, I who was Abbot of Such-zen, will make as many as thou mayest desire.†   (source)
  • 'As a novice is beaten when he misplaces the cups, so am I beaten, who was Abbot of Such-zen.†   (source)
  • I say there shall be no killing—I who was Abbot of Such-zen.†   (source)
  • —for the merit I had acquired over yonder at Such-zen.†   (source)
  • "Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!" said the colonel, thumping the table; "and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill pe vell.†   (source)
  • The lama, haltingly at first, spoke to the Curator of his own lamassery, the Such-zen, opposite the Painted Rocks, four months' march away.†   (source)
  • 'Beside Such-zen, this is flatter than a rice-field'; and with steady, driving strokes from the loins he strode upwards.†   (source)
  • Written by Sobrao Satai, Failed Entrance Allahabad University, for Venerable Teshoo Lama the priest of Such-zen looking for a River, address care of Tirthankars' Temple, Benares.†   (source)
  • His gentle kindliness, and his impressive Chinese quotations, that sounded like spells, delighted them hugely; and in this sympathetic, simple air, he expanded like the Bodhisat's own lotus, speaking of his life in the great hills of Such-zen, before, as he said, 'I rose up to seek enlightenment.'†   (source)
  • At that point, exalted in contemplation, I saw all Hind, from Ceylon in the sea to the Hills, and my own Painted Rocks at Such-zen; I saw every camp and village, to the least, where we have ever rested.†   (source)
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