Tai Sheridan > Quotes

“Don't waste your life living out other people's expectations.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Decrease the complaining. Decrease the self-centeredness around it. Everybody has pain.  ”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Follow your breath like ocean waves coming in and out.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“I am ready to release myself from thinking that love can be found outside of myself and that my own heart is empty”
― Tai Sheridan, Zen Prayers For Repairing Your Life

“The only way to learn sitting quietly is to do it.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Sitting quietly can teach you many ways to accept life, meet pain, age gracefully, and die without regret.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“accept life, meet pain, age gracefully, and die without regret.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Enjoy breathing. Feel your breath. Watch your breath. Become your breath.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Don't waste your life trying to become somebody else.   Don't waste your life trying to live up to your performance expectations.   Don't waste your life imitating others.   Don't waste your life living out other people's expectations.   Don't waste your life envious of other people.   Be authentic. Be genuine. Be real. Be yourself.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Just sit quietly, connect with your breath, and pay attention to what happens. You will learn things.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“You were given the gift of life.   Be grateful for this amazing gift.   Everything is a gift.   Be grateful for everything.   Enjoy living gratefully.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“No desperdicies tu vida tratando de cumplir las expectativas de otras personas.   No desperdicies tu vida envidiando a otras personas.   Sé auténtico. Sé genuino. Sé real. Se tú mismo.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buda en Mezclilla

“Your thoughts are just your thoughts.   They are not your life. They are your thoughts. Make a room as big as the sky in your mind. Your thoughts can be clouds that float through.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“No desperdicies tu vida tratando de convertirte en alguien más.   No desperdicies tu vida tratando de alcanzar tus expectativas de desempeño.   No desperdicies tu vida imitando a otros.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buda en Mezclilla

“Listening gets you out of your self centered camp.   Listening is kindness.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Openness means not being attached to your own point of view.   This means there is no right way of seeing anything.”
― Tai Sheridan, Secrets of True Happiness

“Be authentic. Be genuine.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Give yourself to life.   Give yourself to family.   Give yourself to society.   Give yourself to others.   Give yourself to creativity.   Give yourself to the earth.   Give yourself to humanity.   Give yourself to spirituality.   Give yourself to things that matter.   Benefit all life and bring happiness.   Enjoy benefiting life!”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Kindly ask for what you want. Respect everybody's right to say yes or no to your needs.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Listen to the words. Listen to the experience behind the words.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Live gratefully You were given the gift of life.   Be grateful for this amazing gift.   Everything is a gift.   Be grateful for everything.   Enjoy living gratefully.   You will learn this sitting quietly.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Listen without an agenda. Listen without expectations.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Every moment is a surprise.   Everything that happens is a surprise. Every experience is fresh.   Events are not your ideas about them. Meet the world without expectations.   Enjoy being surprised!”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Accept Your Feelings Your feelings are your heart and gut response to the world.   Everything you feel is okay. Feelings can be difficult. Accept your feelings.   Sometimes you can trust them as honest responses to people and events. Sometimes you can't trust them, they are reactions to people and events. Keep sorting this out.   Your feelings will tell you what you really need. Learn to be gracious with your unmet needs.   Kindly ask for what you want. Respect everybody's right to say yes or no to your needs.   Give up self centeredness as much as possible.   Please enjoy your feelings!   You will learn this sitting quietly.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“I am ready to release myself from mistaking thinking and analysis for the deep clarity of my heart body and mind”
― Tai Sheridan, Zen Prayers For Repairing Your Life

“Make a room as big as the sky in your mind. Your thoughts can be clouds that float through.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Your feelings are your heart and gut response to the world.   Everything you feel is okay. Feelings can be difficult. Accept your feelings.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“There is no soft cushion there is only free falling into dying that is now that is forever it can’t be stopped or started because living dying being loving is life itself”
― Tai Sheridan, Relax, You're Going to Die

“Listening is kindness.”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha

“Sit Quietly”
― Tai Sheridan, Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha