The Art of Just Sitting Quotes

“Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don’t grasp anything. We don’t try to control anything. We just sit.”
― John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

“There is no gap between us and the process.”
― John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

“Everything is unhindered, clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams.”
― John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation.”
― John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

“Do not intend to make a buddha.…”
― John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

“transcendence of both unenlightenment”
― John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza