Our Quotes of the Day:

Remember, you are not so miserable as you have made yourself out to be. You are God, too, and cultivating this constant awareness within you will help keep you from false attachments, from identifying yourself with your body, mind, and senses. So you must say to yourself, “Body, mind, and senses are mine, but they are not me, for I am that eternal flame which is not subject to change, death, and decay.” This awareness should always be with you.

The enemy is a very good teacher.

Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

It is difficult to express the state when the breath becomes tranquil, Sthira.

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.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.