Zen tings
Words from the masters
Zen tings
Our central work is to shift—very slowly, usually over a lifetime—from a self-centered view of things to a life-centered view of things.
Charlotte Joko Beck • Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice
spiritual life originates from the direct observation of impermanence.
Each moment is the universe : Zen and the way of being time
Dainin Katagiri, Every Moment is the Universe
Both day and night, allow all things to come into and reside within your mind. Allow your mind (Self) and all things to function together as a whole.19
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi • How to Cook Your Life
Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.
Brad Warner • Hardcore Zen
See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are. But you don’t have to think of them as evil—as intrinsically bad, as needing to be destroyed or driven from our midst. On the contrary, they need to be absorbed, healed, made whole. Like
... See moreSteve Hagen • Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
Buddhism is about letting people know they do not need to follow any authority. If you think you need an authority figure, go somewhere else.
Brad Warner • Hardcore Zen
Engaged Buddhism has emerged over the past few decades as a framework for understanding how Buddhists can integrate practicing the Dharma with social justice issues. Often, engaged Buddhism is understood to mean that practitioners use the Dharma as a tool to gain deeper insight into injustice and to craft strategies to act dharmically in the world... See more
‘Woman Hold My Hand’
This is the only form of knowledge cultivated by a bodhisattva. The knowledge of dharmas turns out to be no knowledge, and the knowledge of no knowledge turns out to be the only knowledge worth knowing.