Daily Zen - Thursday, June 27

We all have to practice, 

and we have to practice 

with all of our might 

for the rest of our lives.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Friday, April 19

Joy is being willing for

things to be as they are.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Thursday, January 25

Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and 

our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing

has ever existed except this moment.

That's all there is. That's all we are.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 21

When we become open awareness, 

our ability to do necessary thinking gets 

sharper, and our whole sensory input gets 

brighter, clearer...there a richness of 

sensory input, which is just our natural 

state if we are not blocking out experience 

with our tense worrying minds.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 13

All your life you have been going forward

after something, pursuing some goal. 

Enlightenment is dropping all that. But to talk 

of it is little use. The practice has to be done by

each individual. There is no substitute. We can 

read about it until we are a thousand years old 

and it won't do a thing for us. We all have to 

practice, and we have to practice with all 

our might for the rest of our lives.

                                                      ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Friday, April 7

There is nothing other than 

this present moment.

There is no past, there is no future; 

these is nothing but this. 

So when we don't pay attention to

each little this, we miss the whole thing.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 18

When we become open awareness, our ability

 to do necessary thinking gets sharper...

After a certain amount of sitting, the world 

looks brighter, sounds are sharper, and there's 

a richness of sensory input, which is just our 

natural state if we are not blocking out 

experience with our tense worrying minds.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck 

Weekend Zen, November 28-29

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.

So we don't have to try to develop awareness,

with our thoughts, our fantasies,

 our opinions, and our judgements. 

We're either in awareness,

which is our natural state, 

or we're doing something else.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 21

Intrinsically, we are perfect in being as we are.

We are enlightened. But until we really 

understand this, we will do deluded things.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Monday, May 22

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need

at every moment. This includes every mosquito,

every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam,

every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness,

every loss, every moment of joy or depression,

every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath.

Every moment is the guru.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Daily Zen - Tuesday, June 21

Joy is being willing for things 

to be as they are.

~ Charlotte Joko Beck