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In Hinayana Buddhism, practice is classified in four ways. The best way is just to do it without having any joy in it, not even spiritual joy. This way is just to do it, forgetting your physical and mental feeling, forgetting all about yourself in your practice.

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, Japanese Buddhist missionary (1904–1971)

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The more we make friends with ourselves, the more we can see that our ways of shutting down and closing off are rooted in the mistaken thinking that the way to get happy is to blame somebody else.

There is no particular way in true practice. You should find your own way, and you should know what kind of practice you have right now.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way.

The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Everything should exist in the right place, in the right way.

Those who can sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen, the actual feeling of Zen, the marrow of Zen.

Our way is not to sit to acquire something; it is to express our true nature. That is our practice.

PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not.

"Master Dongguo asked Zhuangzi, "This thing called the Way - where does it exist?"

Zhuangzi said, "There's no place it doesn't exist."

"Come," said Master Dongguo, "you must be more specific!"

"It is in the ant."

"As low a thing as that?"

"It is in the panic grass."

"But that's lower still!"

"It is in the tiles and shards."

"How can it be so low?"

"It is in the piss and shit!

Zhuangzi, Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)

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