When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation. — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling.… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body. — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind. — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there,… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
