1,113 Quotes About Practice

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

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.

Our effort in our practice should be directed from achievement to non-achievement.

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.

To take this posture itself is the purpose of our 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.

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

For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.