"Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It i...

"Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is ...

"If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery i...

"I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has ...

"While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your ex...

"A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No re...

"When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to ...

"Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a ...

"Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effor...

Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” is the definitive classic of modern Zen literature. It is one of, if not the, most popular bo...