Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

Wisdom is the ability to realize that everyone has their own dharma, everyone goes their own way. What works for you is not the ultimate good. Know that other people have different way.

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.