When angry, count to Zen.
It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer an...
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.
1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then...
Gracious is the giver who can host and also be a stranger at the door.
May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
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...
The true source of happiness is within each of us.
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...
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.
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
Life is eternal game, there are no rules. Indulge yourself.
Walk slowly through the world and pay attention
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...
You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.
Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them god for us or bad for us. The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it b...
She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.
Your actions create an energy vortex that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.
A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world i...
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