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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

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

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown.

Robert Linssen
Thinking, Judo, Thrown
Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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”

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”

Reality is where we are from moment to moment.

Robert Linssen
Reality, Moments

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”

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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