Quotes About Stillness

Hidden in the leafy canopy, sometimes she stayed so still and quiet even the birds forgot she was there.

Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.

a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...

There is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

A quiet mind is all you need.

In the stillness of the mind, I saw myself as I am: unbound.

Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.

Time, thus unbroken by things to look forward to or back on, stretched endlessly.

I think these movements and become them, here, In this room's stillness, none of them about, And relish them all-until I think of where Thrashed by a crook, the cursive adder writes Quick V's and Q's in the dust and rubs them out. from "Movements

La morte implica la privazione del diritto al movimento, perché la vita è movimento. Il corpo ucciso smette di muoversi. L'uomo è un corpo.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

No me agrada esta calma, este silencio muerto, sin carne, puro hueso.

Master Hakuin emphasizes kufu in movement or practical training in Zen. He says, "To practice Zen in movement is superior to doing so in the stillness of meditation.

by trying to become "no-thought and no-thinking," we create the idea of "no-thought and no-thinking." This is one example of the wrong direction of zazen.

When all are seated, the jikijitsu claps the taku (wooden clappers) once, followed by the four successive rings of the small metal bell called inkin at measured intervals. This is the sign of shijo, which means the beginning of samadhi or zazen. In the ensuing period of quietness, the slightest movement of our bodies, even coughing, is forbidden.

According to the dictionary, "en" of "enza" is defined "to be peaceful and to rest peacefully." Thus, "za" means "to rest in peace." Therefore, "enza" is "to sit peacefully." It is the same as samadhi.

Master Harada Sogaku writes, "For beginners it is adequate to sit for about thirty minutes at a time.

Kinhin means walking in the Zen hall after sitting in Zen meditation for some time. We walk meditatively with our hands held against our chests. The closed right hand held lightly against the chest is covered with the left hand, and both of the arms are held up horizontally.

If possible, we should sit as often as we can every day. In case it is impossible for us to sit many times a day, we must find ways to sit in the intervals of our work or while riding buses and trains on our way to and from work in addition to sitting once a day before going to bed.

Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.