Zen tings

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That’s Buddhist morality.

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

Your attitude towards things should not be contingent upon their quality. A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

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.

It is vital that we clarify and harmonize our lives with our work, and not lose sight of either the absolute or the practical.

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

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.

There is only one teacher. What is that teacher? Life itself. And of course each one of us is a manifestation of life; we couldn’t be anything else.