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Tao-ch’uan says, “Chen-chou’s turnips. Yun-men’s fried bread. My song goes: ‘It’s with you every step, with you every move / standing up or sitting down, all year long / when you eat or drink, it’s before your face / no need to look behind or think another thought.”
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
Zen Doctrine of No Mind,
Jack Kornfield • Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics)
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
Some people fight boredom in meditation, yet to be bored can be a good thing; it can mean the beginning of an appreciation for bare, plain qualities. Enduring your own consciousness is so valuable, I thought, Why shouldn’t a koan be there just to bore you? In this way, might not you appreciate your mind even when it is not being amused or having a
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THE SIX MANTRAS
Jason DeAntonis • How to Love (Mindful Essentials)
—Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
bonseki or the appreciation of natural rocks,
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
he also spent many years as a Zen monk in the temple of Daitokuji in Kyoto,
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
Do I prefer retreating into the beauty of nature or into the delicious world provided by a really good book?