Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.
Shunryu SuzukiLet your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.
Shunryu SuzukiIn the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu SuzukiAs soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
Shunryu SuzukiFaith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Shunryu Suzuki