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

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

When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are. We receive the space in which to bloom. This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

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.

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

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.

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