“We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“But sitting is not something that we do for a year or two with the idea of mastering it. Sitting is something we do for a lifetime. There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being. Eventually we see that we are the limitless, boundless ground of the universe. Our job for the rest… — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share
“The best way to let go is to notice the thoughts as they come up and to acknowledge them.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“We all have to practice, and we have to practice with all of our might for the rest of our lives.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of thoughts. There is nothing wrong with thinking in the sense of what I call “technical thinking.” We have to think in order to walk from here to the corner or to bake a cake or to solve a physics problem. That use of the mind is fine. It isn’t real or unreal; it is just… — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share
“Anxiety is always a gap between the way things are and the way we think they ought to be. Anxiety is something that stretches between the real and unreal. Our human desire is to avoid what's real and instead to be with our ideas about the world: "I'm terrible." "You're terrible." "You're wonderful." The idea is separated from reality and… — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share
“Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“We have a fictional “I” that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. “What will… — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“If we can accept things just the way they are, we’re not going to be greatly upset by anything.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
