Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart

Notice how much you tend to dwell in the past and speculate about the future; it will help you to practice more in this realm of appreciating your life in this moment.

This is the whole point of mindful awareness: to be able to live our life truly as we wish to live it

We all want to be the one who knows. But if we decide we “know” something, we are not open to other possibilities anymore. And that’s a shame. We lose something very vital in our life when it’s more important to us to be one who knows than it is to be awake to what’s happening.

I couldn’t distract myself by reading about practice rather than doing it.

The awakened mind of buddha is available to each one of us. But we have to take down the walls. We have to clear out any ill will that we can notice. We have to find out what’s feeding it and how we can disconnect it from our lives and put it down. To see what’s separating us from all of those around us. To recognize greed, anger, and delusion when

The role of mindfulness is to keep the mind properly grounded in the present moment in a way that will keep you on the path.

Somehow, this sitting and breathing cultivates love and compassion and empathetic joy and equanimity.

“The journey goes down, not up.” She is saying that spiritual awakening is not like climbing up a mountain on our own and leaving others behind. We are letting go of our attachments, even to climbing the mountain.

Practice is a matter of life and death. This life is our practice. This practice is our life—because it’s all about birth and death. And we’ve all been born, and we’re all going to die.

every action that we take has an effect on our life and the lives of those around us. And so we become more awake to the actions we take, the actions of body, speech, and mind.