None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Meditation is not about doing something

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.