Zazen Meditation Quotes

#1. Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

Dogen

#4. I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Agnes Varda

#5. As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#6. Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

Ruth Ozeki

#7. To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang out happily as part of an open-ended quantum array.

Ruth Ozeki

#8. True worship can only take place when we agree to God sitting not only on His throne in the center of the universe, but on the throne that stands in the center of our heart.

Robert Colman

#9. Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

Teju Cole

#10. The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

Frederick Lenz

#11. you prefer to practice zazen at home, then there are not as much rules to follow. You have the freedom to choose from the different techniques that were mentioned, from to face the wall while sitting to the walking meditation.

Anong Sasithorn

#12. A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.

Marie-Alain Couturier

#13. Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst of all evil, not a thought is aroused in the mind-this is called za. Seeing into one's Self-nature, not being moved at all-this is called Zen.

Huineng

#14. The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory

Mark Batterson

#15. [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

Steve Hagen

#16. Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.

Steve Hagen

#17. Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can't have images.

Vittorio Storaro

#18. In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Shunryu Suzuki

#19. Even in hell, there are rules.

Jaye Frances