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.

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

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

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

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