Alive Quote by Natalie Goldberg

“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of energy, alive…

— Natalie Goldberg

The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind…

— Frederick Lenz

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless…

— John Daishin Buksbazen

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

— Natalie Goldberg

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment…

— Bill Porter

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and…

— Nhat Hanh

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

— Yamada Koun

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to…

— Rajneesh

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we…

— Brad Warner

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

— Bodhidharma