We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as well as intensives on Buddhism that focus on the work of Zen Master Dogen and Ryokan, as well as on many of the Mahayana sutras.

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

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.