Shunryu Suzuki Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

• If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Meditation, Mind, Empty

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Teaching, Imagination

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

• Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhist, Kindness, Freedom

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something.' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Self, Meditation, Achievement

• Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Flower, Meditation, Sitting

• Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Moving, Heart, Space

• The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Sheep, Giving, Meditation

• Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Meditation, Way, More Time

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

• The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Drinking, Practice, Water

• When you sit, everything sits with you.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Meditation

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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