In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color–something which exists before all forms and colors appear…...

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on...

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...

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is.[…]Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing....

For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.

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

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.