Shunryu Suzuki

Day 20 of Wildmind’s 100 Day Meditation Challenge

The other day when I was meditating, I was really beset with thinking for 35 minutes, because of being tired…

January 20, 2013

How we use effort to get to a state of effortless meditation

From time to time I'll hear people saying that meditation shouldn't involve effort. For example, Krishnamurti said, "All effort to…

February 9, 2012

The power (and pitfalls) of criticism

From time to time people write to me with interesting questions or observations. Often, the less time they've been practicing…

November 7, 2011

Meditation is an emotional rollercoaster.

Ed Halliwell: About four days into my first meditation retreat, I started crying. Not little droplets of tears, but great,…

May 13, 2011

Muhammad Ali: “Children make you want to start life over.”

Probably all of us have looked at a child and wished we could start our lives over again. We can't…

January 29, 2008

“Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind,” by Shunryu Suzuki

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu…

March 7, 2005