Zenkei Blanche Hartman on zazen

“In our zazen practice, we stop our thinking and we are free from our emotional activity. We don't say there is no emotional activity, but we are free from it. We don't say that we have no thinking, but our life activity is not limited by our thinking mind. In short, we can say that we trust ourselves completely, without thinking, without feeling, without discriminating between good and bad, right and wrong. Because we respect ourselves, because we put faith in our life, we sit. That is our practice.” Zenkei Blanche Hartman, Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heat, ed. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, p. 16.