From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

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.

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

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

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