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“When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.”

Trying Lines Practice Sitting Bottom Accustomed Bottom Line Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.”

Stills Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Active Passive Meditation Practice Sitting Still

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.”

Mind Helping Sleep Practice Meditation Walking Activity Eating Sitting Intention Everyday Helping Others Everyday Life Dressings

Book:The great path of awakening: the classic guide to lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for cultivating the heart of compassion

Source: The great path of awakening: the classic guide to lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist practice for cultivating the heart of compassion

“The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.”

Philosophy Practice Meditation Sitting Down And Formal Emphasis Meditating Concentrating Sitting Down

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.”

World Mean Life Is Energy Practice Our Lives Right Now Sitting Settling Our World Here And Now

Author:Kosho Uchiyama

“If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.”

Ifs Dream Body Today Energy Practice Meditation Tomorrow Walking Mindfulness Sitting Cells Concentration Today And Tomorrow

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.”

Thinking Helping Spiritual Talking Steps Practice Meditation Eating Sitting Breaths Drinking Touching Every Step Spiritual Practice Meditation Practice

Book:Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

Source: Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher

“Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.”

Artist Imagination Practice Millions Sitting Mark Lays Creator Eggs Throwing Dozen Frogs Brahms Tadpoles Throwing Things

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art