Beads Quote by Joan Halifax

We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as…

— Joan Halifax

“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter…

— Francis Harold Cook

“Whenever a thought occurs, be aware of it, as soon as you are aware of it, it will vanish. If you remain for a…

— Yi Wu Taigen Leighton

“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

“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is…

— Katsuki Sekida

The Wachowskis have a very complex way of thinking and of creating.

— Max Riemelt

“The marks life leaves on everything it touches transform perfection into wholeness. Older, wiser cultures choose to claim this wholeness in the things that…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century,…

— Albert Pike

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

“I was beginning to realize that zazen was not a cure-all. People who attain a certain degree of understanding of zazen begin to understand…

— Arthur Braverman

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

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

— Dogen