Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism

Only listen to and speak with people who nourish love and understanding in you, unless you are speaking with someone with the sole purpose of helping them to transform their suffering and violence.

Don't let your desire be small, it should be very great. If it is not a great desire you will be pulled away by many smaller desires.

The Buddha is still helping us 2,6oo years later.

When you take a step, if you can enjoy that step, if your step can bring you more stability and freedom,then you are serving the world.

It is not about "doing" something, it's about "being" something-being peace, being hope, being solid-every action will come out of that, because peace, stability, and freedom always seek a way to express themselves in action.

Every bit of our understanding, compassion, and peace is useful; it is gold.

we can do things every day, in every moment of our daily life to nourish the seeds of peace, compassion, andunderstanding in us and in those around us.

Right Understanding involves understanding suffering and seeing what governments could do to make social justice, mutual respect, and tolerance a reality.

Ifyou do not knowhowto take care of your fear, anger, and despair, if you do not know how to calm yourself, how can you negotiate peace?

Appropriate political and social solutions can only arise when suffering is acknowledged and understood.