As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit. — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see. And as a matter of fact no other way. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share
When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking,… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are. — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now. — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is. — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify.… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is.… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
