Art Quote by Ruth Ozeki

“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation.”

— John Daido Loori

“But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

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

“An idle mind does not think.”

— Amitav Chowdhury

“She was thinking about how not to think.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Thoughtlessness—I try not to think about it.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“Can one n/ever not think?...Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking”

— ijosephi lowly worm

“Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is before us.”

— Anonymous

“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

“I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There’s a lot that doesn’t bear thinking about. Thinking…

— Margaret Atwood

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”

— Plato