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

- 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 …

- Taizan Maezumi

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…

- Taizan Maezumi

Details are all there are.

- 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 …

- 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

Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see.…

- Taizan Maezumi