Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.