The Art of Just Sitting
John Daido Loori (Editor)
My 4 highlights
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When you’re just sitting, you can’t get a hold of anything, because you’re just sitting. You’re not sitting and getting a hold of something.
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Zen practitioners, as they progress beyond the beginning stages of zazen, encounter a unique landscape that reflects their own personality and individual life experiences.
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The function of our brain is to secrete thoughts.
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“Accord and respond without laboring and accomplish without hindrance. Everywhere turn around freely, not following conditions, not falling into classifications.”