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

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.

No single answer can hold the truth of a good heart.

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

All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids.

My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

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