Zazen Posture Quotes

#1. 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.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

Rush Limbaugh

#3. I despise computers in many ways. I think they're hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Brian Eno

#4. In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Oscar Wilde

#5. Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Richard Rohr

#6. Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad posture.

Shunryu Suzuki

#8. There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.

Dmitry Medvedev

#10. I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.

Julian Ovenden

#11. What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them.

Matthew Pearl

#12. For it is in the field where meaning is constitutive that man's freedom reaches its highest point. There too his responsibility is greatest. There there occurs the emergence of his existential subject, finding out for himself that he has to decide for himself what he is to make of himself.

Bernard Lonergan

#13. Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

Neville Goddard

#14. My mother always said two people can't fight if one person doesn't want to,

Dale Carnegie

#15. Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?
Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.

Rick Riordan

#16. We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Kodo Sawaki

#17. If you want to discover the true meaning of Zen in your everyday life, you have to understand the meaning of keeping your mind on your breathing and your body in the right posture in zazen.

Shunryu Suzuki

#18. Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Mark Twain