You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight

If you really want to please yourself, just forget your longing and attend to your daily life. In this we find goldenness.

If you accept life and death without any conditions, your life will become supple instead of rigid.

We need to practice compassion every day.

In Sanskrit, the word for “right” is samma. It means “to go along with,” “to go together,” “to turn together.” It originally comes from a term that means “to unite.” So “right” is a state of being in which everything can live together, or turn together, united.

WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR LIVES, we generally pick out good aspects and bad ones. Then we criticize ourselves. Then we suffer.

So one thing is not one thing. One thing is all things, manifested as one thing. To

In a way, the practice of giving is exactly the same as right view, because when you correctly understand human life, you will see that all beings are interconnected and interpenetrated with each other.

Bodhi Mind is not one’s individual mind. It is universal Mind, and it is open to all beings. It is Mind with a capital M. It is the state of enlightenment.

if you continue to study the works of the great calligraphers, you will reach a point where the true strength of your practice will be actualized. Before you are conscious of it, you will master calligraphy. And then your hand will move naturally.