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So the crux of zazen is this: all we must do is constantly to create a little shift from the spinning world we’ve got in our heads to right-here-now. That’s our practice. The intensity and ability to be right-here-now is what we have to develop.
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
—Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen
Jack Kornfield • The Buddha Is Still Teaching: Contemporary Buddhist Wisdom
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things:
everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
Jane Hirshfield • Passages Saved From iOS
we begin to turn away from a self-centered orientation—not to an “other-centered” orientation (because it includes ourselves), but to a totally open orientation.
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
What are you looking for outside of yourself? What is it that you think is going to do it?
Charlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.
Everything changes;
everything is interconnected;
pay attention to it.
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.