Pure and simple, balance is happiness.

It is necessary to store power to be free. Right now you are in the gravity field of many different people in your life. Each person you feel attached to is a planetary body...perhaps a heavenly body!

Dissolution means envelopment in Eternity.

Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

We feel crowded by other people; we feel crowded by social rules; we feel crowded by ourselves, mainly.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.