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.

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.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

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 turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

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