When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.