Robert Linssen Quotes

• Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere;
  Let us take long walks in the open air...
  Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes...
  Let us indulge in games...
  Let us be more simple: simple and true in our gestures, in our words,
  and simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves.

  Robert Linssen

  Simple, Garden, Lakes

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• In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown.

  Robert Linssen

  Thinking, Judo, Thrown

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant.

  Robert Linssen

  Thinking, Victory, Judo

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• Reality is where we are from moment to moment.

  Robert Linssen

  Reality, Moments

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• If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.

  Robert Linssen

  Attitude, Average, Play

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value.

  Robert Linssen

  Everyday, Requirements, Facts

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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• Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

  Robert Linssen

  Special, Doe, Scripture

  Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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