Zazen Quotes
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Zazen Quotes & Sayings
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But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
— Shunryu Suzuki
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not.
— Shunryu Suzuki
That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?
— Beth Groundwater
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
— Calvin Coolidge
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.
— Frederick Lenz
Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.
— Ruth Ozeki
We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.
— Bruce C. Hafen
Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad posture.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
— Imelda Marcos
In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Falling in love is the most beautiful wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.
— Peter Matthiessen
It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.
— Brad Warner
Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back.
— Brad Warner
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
— Brenda Shoshanna
