When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.