Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable. — 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
