Sublime

“Although it can be useful to think of mindfulness as ‘being with things as they really are’, it is in fact more accurate, and more helpful for our purposes, to understand basic mindfulness practice as a way of looking that merely fabricates a little less than our habitual ways of looking.” -Rob Burbea, Seeing That Frees

Ajahn Amaro

Sometimes I think my role as a Zen teacher comes down to being the one person in the room who says, “I don’t know,” when everyone else is sure they know what to do—or more often than not, sure they know what somebody else should be doing.

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.

if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.

This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.