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In Japan we have the phrase shoshin, which means “beginner’s mind.” The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
Shunryu Suzuki • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: 50th Anniversary Edition
Shunryu Suzuki
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
When we feel the inescapability of our life circumstances true practice is finally possible.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
One old koan tells the story of a student who asks his teacher for permission to leave the monastery. “Where do you want to go?” the teacher asks. “Around on pilgrimage,” replies the student. The teacher presses him, “What is the purpose of a pilgrimage?” After all, doesn’t practice teach us that everything we’re looking for is already right here?
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
We work with what we have in each and every moment.
Bernard Glassman • Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters
There is a legend in which the Buddha comes upon the mind of not picking and choosing.3 On the edge of his own profound change of heart, the Buddha meditates all night under a fig tree, and an image comes to mind. He remembers that, as a child, while his father plowed a field in an annual ceremony, he was left in the shade of a rose apple tree. At
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
—Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen