“By cultivating the experience of stillness, we can begin to develop a 'category-free mind': an unstructured mind, wild and deeply grounded in the immediacy of sensorial aliveness. From this perspective, perception returns to its roots in appreciation and insight. We are opened to learn more fully from the details of lived life and from the world itself: from mountains, from the drifting of misty air and the intricacies of a birdsong. From the smoke of a stick of incense, the look in the eye of another person, or the inevitability of death.”
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi