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.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

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

we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.

What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.

God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.