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...
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...
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...
We find what's in our own heads.
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.
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...
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.
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Walk slowly through the world and pay attention
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
Your actions create an energy vortex that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.
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...
Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.
A pity it is evening, yetI do love the water of this springseeing how clear it is, how clean;rays of sunset gleam on it,lighting up its ripples, making itone with those who travelthe roads; I turn and...
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...