Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

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

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

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

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.

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.

All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.