The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in the nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love. Trees are also very beautiful people, who have their own innate wisdom and...

The mysterious manner in which this growing sense of unity commingles with a sense of utter goodness is worth noting. It arises by no effort of mine; rather does it come to me out of...

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

We don’t have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the surface of the sea there may be a multitude of waves but the sea is not affected...

it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself

Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, remember to utilize discernment so that you can hear and sense and feel the vibration...

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

I am good. I am bad. I am poor. I don’t have this or that. I am not enlightened.” It is always associate with a concept and a belief system. Until we are awakened to...

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...

By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the...

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of...

Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker, and my head was a balloon, incapable of thoughts. I didn’t...

A One-Liner used at the right time and at the right place will create a greater impact than any story ever told in the world.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing.

With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

The Art of Living is to be yourself. It is to be true to yourself. The Art of Living is learning to live with love, awareness and truth. Meditation is the way to learn The...

Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life.

Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness – the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with...

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God’s perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world” — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — “were hatching and proclaiming...

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still...

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I...

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

I am your hope, your guide – your soul.