1,113 Quotes About Practice

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

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

It will take quite a long time before you find your calm, serene mind in your practice.

The practice of love is the procreation of hope.

In other restless positions you have no power to accept your difficulties, but in the zazen posture which you have acquired by long, hard practice, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether they are agreeable or disagreeable.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.