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—Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
The goal of Zen is to awaken to life as it is, rather than stay in the comparative dream world of our ideas about it.
Domyo Sater Burk • Zen Living
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things:
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Jane Hirshfield • Passages Saved From iOS
I am who I am right now. And that very state of being is the Buddha.
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
Working in this way loosens the knots in the mind, and it also introduces a space so that you can start moving between anxieties and distractions and not struggle with them so much. Just staying with the questions, life grows calmer
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
It is useful to understand that enlightenment itself is not fixed. It is not limited to any particular insight or moment of awakening; it is also the fluid and dynamic functioning of the totality of conscious life. That is why, with the dawning of enlightenment, there is nothing to attain or grab hold of—there is only the truth as it appears and fu
... See moreAdyashanti • Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life
Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.
Everything changes;
everything is interconnected;
pay attention to it.
Meditation is not about some state, but about the meditator.