Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

Shunryu Suzuki

from the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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• Empty and ready mind
• The teaching of transiency
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• Weed
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• Do not be bothered by anything
• The weeds you have in your mind
• Little by little
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• Your last moment
• The posture itself
• Open to all the possibilities
• The quality of zazen will express itself
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• Spacious control
• The true bow