One day Yen Kuan called his attendant, "Bring me my rhinocerous fan." The attendant said, "The fan is broken." Yen Kuann said,...

When you allow yourself to be in a sangha the way a drop of water allows itself to be in a river, the energy of the sangha can penetrate...

If you continue this simple practice (zazen) every day, you will some obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something...

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw oursleves away and become something better, it is about about befrending who we are...

True Kensho does not come, does not go, but one should manifest it in everything one does. The one realizable fact is that there is no...

Supreme perfect enlightenment, the unsurpassed enlightenment of a Buddha. "As it surpasses the understanding of those limited by...

Spiritual practitioners thrive in unpredictable conditions, testing and refining the inner qualities of heart and mind. Every situation...

Zen Master Un Mun, instructing am assembly of monks, said "Don't ask me before the fifteenth day of the month (Borom). After Borom you...

Mindfulness is the place in the middle, which is not sucked in and overcome by something; nor is it pushing it away or recoiling from it...

When the mind is no longer pushed and pulled around by grasping and avoiding, including the grasping at enlightenment or personal growth,...

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love...

After the Buddha-to-be, then still known as Siddhartha Gautama, became a spiritual seeker, he spent six years practicing with different...

“KOSHO UCHIYAMA: Although Sawaki Roshi seemed manly, broad-minded, and carefree, he was also careful and behaved prudently. In contrast,...

Find your original job and do it impeccably. Never give up. While failure is possible, there is nothing that cannot be transmuted. Our...

"True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude...

"The Great Way is not difficult if you don’t make distinctions. Only throw away likes and dislikes and everything will be perfectly...

"Wisdom and delusion basically aren't different. This shore and the other shore essentially have the same source. But when someone...

Our true nature cannot be found in books and academic studies because our true nature is before speech and words. It is before thinking....

It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn, very like the Tao. Lao...

The way we do anything can reflect the way we do everything. It’s useful to see whether our lives outside of meditation practice are...