Our Quotes of the Day:
Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.
May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.
In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.
Grant me, O Lord, this boon, may I never refrain from righteous deeds.
Every change is being forced upon us.
Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
