Forget what others say or do and attend to your practice.

Each moment gives us a great opportunity to extend compassion to everyday things and events. True compassion works beyond our intention. It is inconceivable and wondrous. It can manifest in even the most ordinary moment.

There is nowhere to go. This is liberation. It’s very simple. Too simple. If you touch it, it’s gone. Freedom is very intimate. It’s like a secret in your heart.

Zazen is not about destroying our thoughts or doing away with our subjective points of view. It’s about how to deal with thoughts and views mindfully. In zazen, mindfulness, thoughts, and views all become simple and quiet because we are concentrated on just one thing, not many. At that time, mindfulness becomes very pure and clean, and our view

We need to practice compassion every day.

But no matter how long we discuss the question “What should I do?” there is no conclusion. You must just be here. “Here” doesn’t mean Minneapolis or San Francisco. “Here” means right now.

Wholeheartedness means to do something with “no mind.” It means to plunge into your activity and let time ripen, right now, right here.

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

Zazen is a fundamental practice. It is about taking care of this moment with wholeheartedness. Just do it—right now, right here.