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Zazen Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not…
- 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.
- Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you…
- In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit,…
More Zazen Quotes
- No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special. — Kodo Sawaki
- Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination… — Taisen Deshimaru
- So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a… — Shunryu Suzuki
- Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than… — Shunryu Suzuki
- In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. — Shunryu Suzuki
- The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;… — Shunryu Suzuki
- When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your… — Shunryu Suzuki
- Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions. — Dogen