Accepting Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

“In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard…

— Shunryu Suzuki

The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred…

— Philip Kapleau

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

“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

“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

“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

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“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

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

“If you want to discover the true meaning of Zen in your everyday life, you have to understand the meaning of keeping your mind…

— 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

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