Sit Down and Shut Up

Text

Sit down and shut up. That is zazen. Everything else is just your imagination running wild.

license: fair_use

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Kodo Sawaki

Lineage: Sōtō

By Kodo Sawaki

• Lost in Thoughtproverb
• Satori Is Not a Commodityproverb
• Zazen Is the Selfproverb
• Zazen Is Good for Nothingsaying
• You Can't Trade a Fartsaying

From To You (Anata ni)

• Lost in Thought
• Satori Is Not a Commodity
• Zazen Is the Self
• You Can't Trade a Fart
• Gaining Is Delusion
• Hell Is in Your Own Chest
• Group Sickness
• Religion Is Living Your Own Life
• Don't Put Your Heads Together
• There Is No One to Be

Sources

• contentWikisource — English-language free library

  Kodo Sawaki, To You

  To You (Anata ni): Sit Down and Shut Up