Our understanding of Buddhism should not be just gathering many pieces of information, seeking to gain knowledge. Instead of gathering knowledge, you should clear your mind. If your mind is clear, true knowledge is already yours. When you listen to our teaching with a pure, clear mind, you accept it as if you were hearing something which you already knew.

Shunryu Suzuki
from the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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- Little by little
- Belief based on a self-centered idea
- Opening up our small mind
- Your last moment
- The posture itself
- Just to live
- Open to all the possibilities
- The quality of zazen will express itself
- Wisdom seeking wisdom
- Calmness in activity
- Empty and ready mind
- The teaching of transiency
- The awareness that you are here
- Weed
- Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble
- Do not be bothered by anything
- Beginner’s mind
- Spacious control
- The true bow