Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart

Do not count your breaths just to avoid your thinking but to take the best care you can of your breathing.

We need to let it go, let our life flow through our hands like a river and not try to grab some piece of it and hold on to it. Just to be present with it and find out how to express our vow in this moment, in this circumstance, right where we are right now, instead of trying to figure out how to make it the way we want so that it’ll be just what we

this practice was not some exotic trip or a passing fad but a matter of life and death that required an equal commitment from us to meet him completely with our whole heart.

the thing is not to deny it or turn away from it but to recognize it, let the fact of the limited nature of our life be an encouragement to live it well, to live it in a way that benefits everyone, not to get caught up in fear and self-clinging and forget our connection with everything and everyone but to live our life in a way that makes of it a g

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

at some point you need to “dig one deep hole instead of many shallow holes,” as

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.

I get only one chance to live this life, and I’d love not to make a mess of it.

Our practice is to help people, and to help people, we find out how to practice our way in each moment.