In your big mind, everything has the same value.. In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
Shunryu Suzuki
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.
mind possibilities
When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
understand thing
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
kind excitement concentration zen routine
The world is its own magic.
magic world
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself
leaving good burn
Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.
religion attitude
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
food
I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear.. No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
philosophy zen
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
buddhism
To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.
buddhism life-philosophy zen-buddhism
Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gaining ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.
meditation zen-buddhism
respect zen buddha
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
people
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.
life nature humannature
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