It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do it, not to worry about it. Feel you would be doing it without the money.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

What is perfect? From the Zen mind, perfection is not being there.