Buddhist practice is a flexible, individual, inner development that puts you in touch with your own eternal nature.

Simply do your work, eat your meals, do your washing, walk your dog, clean your car, play with your children, love your partner. Do all these things with mindful awareness, fully doing, fully being, and you will be practising Buddhism.

Practice consists of mental and physical training. At the centre of Mukyõhõ practice is regular meditation practice and physical practice for a unified and healthy body and mind. The physical exercises are not demanding and don't require any previous training or skill. They build vitality and help to direct concentration with movement. They are not fighting methods and fighting has no place in Buddhist practice.

"The most important thing is the necessity of using the mind to control the body.
Therefore from the time of shaving your head and taking the precepts,
you must understand the principle of concentrating the mind."
- Suzuki Shõsan Rõshi

Our mind is a tool and the better we learn how to use it, the more progress we will make. Realism is the understanding of understanding. How do we rise beyond self delusion? How do we sharpen our minds? How do we come up with new innovative ideas and expand the horizon of understanding? Through the practice of meditation.

We learn how to see through the fog. We try to understand ourselves and each other so that we can become the tools of exploration that we need to be in order to increase the sum total of human understanding; this is achieved through the practice of meditation.

The path which the Buddha taught and the methods of meditation he passed on were designed to train the mind to become detached from craving and desire, to release us from our suffering and misery: to attain perfect insight (hannya 般若).

"One who practices the Buddha Dharma must maintain uprightness whole-heartedly.
Without uprightness practice is empty;
but one who has it within himself will prevail in all circumstances."
- Suzuki Shõsan Rõshi

"By endeavour, diligence, discipline, and self-mastery,
let the wise man make of himself an island that no flood can overwhelm.".
- The Dhammapada