Finding the Still Point Quotes

“We’ve come into this life fully equipped as a buddha, an awakened being, and we’ll go out fully equipped as a buddha, realized or not.”
― John Daido Loori, Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation

“Most of us spend our time preoccupied. We are constantly carrying on an internal dialogue. While we are involved in talking to ourselves, we miss the moment-to-moment awareness of our life. We look, but we don’t see. We listen, but we don’t hear. We eat, but we don’t taste. We love, but we don’t feel. The senses are receiving all the information, but because of our preoccupations, cognition is not taking place. Zazen brings us back to each moment. The moment is where our life takes place. If we miss the moment, we miss our life.”
― John Daido Loori, Finding the Still Point: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Meditation