Zen tings
Words from the masters
Zen tings
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’
And as I continued to practice and to talk with other students of the buddha dharma, I found that many people share the conditioning that leads us to think that there’s something wrong with us. If we could only get, do, or be something more, then we would be all right. It’s so easy for us to get the idea that there’s something wrong with us. And it
... See moreZenju Earthlyn Manuel • Seeds for a Boundless Life: Zen Teachings from the Heart
The Tibetan teacher Kalu Rinpoche puts it this way: You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all. Healing comes in touching this realm of nonseparation.
Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart
Not technically zen but close enough
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
It is vital that we clarify and harmonize our lives with our work, and not lose sight of either the absolute or the practical.
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi • How to Cook Your Life
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
The goal of Zen is to awaken to life as it is, rather than stay in the comparative dream world of our ideas about it.
Domyo Sater Burk • Zen Living
Zen is about an active life, an involved life. When we know our minds well and the emotions that our thinking creates, we tend to see better what our lives are about and what needs to be done, which is generally just the next task under our nose. Zen is about a life of action, not a life of passively doing nothing. But our actions must be based on
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