The Art of Just Sitting

John Daido Loori (Editor)

My 4 highlights

  • 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.
  • Zen practitioners, as they progress beyond the beginning stages of zazen, encounter a unique landscape that reflects their own personality and individual life experiences.
  • The function of our brain is to secrete thoughts.
  • “Accord and respond without laboring and accomplish without hindrance. Everywhere turn around freely, not following conditions, not falling into classifications.”