Zen Is Right Now Quotes

“Suzuki said that if we practiced zazen sincerely, we could gradually become free from enslavement to compulsive intellectual and emotional activity. He said calming the intellect would happen first, but that calming emotions was not so easy and would take longer.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind