Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism

We all have to suffer less in order to restore some kind of balancewithin ourselves. Only then can we engage in meaningful and effective efforts to build peace in the world.

Despite what they sometimes believe, directors and actors aren't really concerned primarily with fame and wealth. The mind of love is very strong, and if they could touch this love, they would become bodhisattvas, and create films that lead people to awakening.

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.

When you already have the energy of mindfulness in you born from your daily practice, you have enough calm and insight to recognize, embrace, look deeply at, and understand your suffering.

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.

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.

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

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