Quotessence
Home / Books / Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Book by Shunryu Suzuki · 13 quotes · Ifs, Mind, Practice

Filter quotes by topic

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Quotes

“The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.”

“When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.”