Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.
The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm.
When angry, count to Zen.
What he’s looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn’t want that because it is all around him. Every step’s an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to...
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.
Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.
Keep Calm and Find Your Zen-ity
A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready....
The true source of happiness is within each of us.
Gracious is the giver who can host and also be a stranger at the door.
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth...
Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you wo...
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it's content can perpetually change with your perception.
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
To be the body-mind or not to be the body-mind, this is the question.
But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there’s a whole day ahead of us, we’re almost to the mountains, it’s a good day to be alive. It’s this thinner air...
Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any...