1,113 Quotes About Practice
- Author Brian Browne Walker
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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice.
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- Author Shunryu Suzuki
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In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.
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- Author Jack Kornfield
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We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.
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- Author Joe Hyams
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Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.
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- Author Pema Chodron
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For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.
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- Author Jack Kornfield
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Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
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- Author Pema Chodron
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An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.
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- Author Jack Kornfield
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Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.
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- Author Shunryu Suzuki
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Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
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