Taizan Maezumi Quotes & Sayings

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is. — Taizan Maezumi

As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can't experience the state of non-thinking. If we can't experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit. — Taizan Maezumi

Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it's the only thing there is, how can we talk about it? — Taizan Maezumi

Details are all there are. — Taizan Maezumi

When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it becomes more than the place of yin and yang. You do not only divide, but you create the problem. — Taizan Maezumi

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is. — Taizan Maezumi

Have good trust in yourself,
not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are. — Taizan Maezumi

Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable. — Taizan Maezumi

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now. — Taizan Maezumi