There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.