In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.