Daily Zen - Monday, January 22

In Zen, the effort and the result 

are not two different things, 

the means and the goal are not separated, 

the finding occurs in the very seeking itself.

~ Bernard Phillips

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 9

Do not seek to find out "what to do."

Every "what to do" is only an abstraction.

You will never come to the truth of your

own being by riding on the back of an 

abstraction. If you know "what to do," 

you can be sure it is the wrong thing.

~ Bernard Phillips

Daily Zen - Friday, July 17

Do not seek to find out "what to do."

Every "what to do" is only an abstraction.

You will never come to the truth of your own

being by riding on the back of abstraction.

If you know "what to do," you can be 

sure it is the wrong thing.

~ Bernard Phillips

Daily Zen - Wednesday, May 13

Zen practice is thus not a set of operations

designed to achieve an external goal.

In Zen, the effort and the result are not 

two different things, the means 

and the goal are not to be separated, 

the finding occurs in the very seeking itself.

~ Bernard Phillips