As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And w...
If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptide...
May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
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...
Preoccupied with a single leaf you won't see the tree.
Pardon all runners,All speechless, alien winds,All mad waters.Pardon their impulses,Their wild attitudes,Their young flights, their reticence.When a message has no clothes onHow can it be spoken.
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
This is shaping up even worse than you anticipated. Still, you feel a measure of detachment, as if you had suffered everything already and this were just a flashback. You wish that you had paid more a...
Nothing divides one so much as thought.
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.
Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for your Zazen practice and or even your life. If you can let go, greatly l...
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.
The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It is not an emptiness, which is a mere void. It has neither colour nor form. It enjoys no plea...
Life is eternal game, there are no rules. Indulge yourself.
Your actions create an energy vortex that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.