Quite often, even though our calendars are filled with crosses and short phrases, our hearts feel empty. We may know better about where we will be in the next five years than we know about in the next five seconds. We seem to be suffering from an excess of orderliness, caution and structural rigidity and […]
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Be quiet, and loving and fearless. Three things Buddha says: Be quiet—learn to be silent more and more—and loving, because if your silence is not loving it will make you insensitive. Then your silence will be that of a cemetery—dull, dead.
“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans–and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms […]
Zazen means just sitting doing nothing. The first thing to do is learn sitting, a deep restfulness. Become a pool of rest, not even ripples of desire, going nowhere, no ambition—not even for God, not even for nirvana.
The love of a man for a woman and a woman for a man is often the floor to which people fall after the collapse of other dreams.
The mind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.
The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser. The fool who thinks he is wise is a fool indeed.
A mind beyond judgments Watches and understands.
You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
In this world, hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.