Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice Quotes

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When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Actually we do not have any particular name for our practice; when we practice zazen we just practice it, and whether we find joy in our practice or not, we just do it.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

You do not say, “This is enlightenment,” or “That is not right practice.” Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Waves are the practice of the water.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But if you make your best effort just to continue your practice with your whole mind and body, without gaining ideas, then whatever you do will be true practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

In Hinayana Buddhism, practice is classified in four ways. The best way is just to do it without having any joy in it, not even spiritual joy. This way is just to do it, forgetting your physical and mental feeling, forgetting all about yourself in yo...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But do not give up your practice; continue it, knowing your weakness.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

There is no particular way in true practice. You should find your own way, and you should know what kind of practice you have right now.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice