The Way Things Turn

We all have to practice,  and we have to practice  with all of our might  for the rest of our lives. ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are. ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and  our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there...

When we become open awareness,  our ability to do necessary thinking gets  sharper, and our whole sensory input gets  brighter, clearer...th...

All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal.  Enlightenment is dropping all that. But to talk  of it is li...

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 pa...

When we become open awareness, our ability  to do necessary thinking gets sharper... After a certain amount of sitting, the world  looks bri...

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 o...

Intrinsically, we are perfect in being as we are. We are enlightened. But until we really  understand this, we will do deluded thin...

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, ev...

Joy is being willing for things  to be as they are. ~ Charlotte Joko Beck