Doing nothing Quote by Brad Warner

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…

— Kodo Sawaki

“This form of meditation requires us to remain in the moment that we are currently experiencing. We are to observe thoughts, senses, and emotions,…

— Ian Tuhovsky

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus…

— Philip Kapleau

What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without…

— Taisen Deshimaru

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single…

— Brad Warner

“You must realize that no matter how intently you count your breaths you will still perceive what is in your line of vision, since…

— Anonymous

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice;…

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

“Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all…

— Huineng

“Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a…

— Dogen