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Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
The purpose of Buddhist teaching is to point to life itself existing beyond consciousness in our pure original mind. All Buddhist practices were built up to protect this true teaching, not to propagate Buddhism in some wonderful mystic way.
Shunryu Suzuki • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
The only way we can continue this practice is if we want to sit, maybe for no reason, and if we are interested in awakening to the deceptions and delusions of our ordinary mind, not because that is an enlightened thing to do, but because it is helpful for our lives: we get in trouble less; our relationships are more harmonious.
Katherine Thanas • The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in grasp... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
point. I would look at the wood floor and see that those cells are me. I would look at the rock and the rock was doing its rock thing. There is no separation, nothing in between the rock and me, nothing in between anything. Also, when I utter a word, I create the world. This came with the luscious sense that nothing has ever happened before. Also,
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