The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible me...
Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the d...
Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.
5. If You Love, Love Openly Twenty monks and one nun, who was named Eshun, were practicing meditation with a certain Zen master. Eshun was very pretty even though her head was shaved and her dress pla...
The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention.
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we...
Fairy tales and stories of fantasy bridge the gap and inspires the heart and mind wherever religious thought reaches its limits or meets a dead end. In other words, fairy tales are spiritual in nature...
The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.
Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously,Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contra...
The answers are never out there. All the answers are in there, inside you, waiting to be discovered.
We find what's in our own heads.
Keep Calm and Find Your Zen-ity
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.
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.
Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.
Nothing divides one so much as thought.
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...
To see the positive or not to see the positive, this is the question.
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