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Zazen's 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

What are those?" Nico called. — Rick Riordan

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing. — Dogen

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something. — Jack Canfield

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time. — Shunryu Suzuki

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

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature. — Nina Easton

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

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

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions. — Dogen

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

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this. — Dogen

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose. — Ruth Ozeki

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special. — Kodo Sawaki

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen. — Kodo Sawaki

Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world. — Steve Hagen

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea. — Shunryu Suzuki

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is. — Shunryu Suzuki

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry. — Marc Maron

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once. — Peter Matthiessen

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed. — Richard Branson

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

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen. — Ruth Ozeki