Daily Zen - Thursday, March 6

If you pay attention for just five minutes,

you know some very fundamental dharma:

Things change, nothing stays 

comfortable, sensations come and go, 

but not because of anything you did.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 17

...the delicacy, the impermanence,

the emptiness of mind states.

Just like the weather, they blow

in and out. Good mood. Bad mood.

Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Daily Zen - Thursday, September 13

Mindfulness meditation doesn't 

change life. Life remains as fragile

and unpredictable as ever. 

Meditation changes the heart's 

capacity to accept life as it is. 

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Daily Zen - Thursday, July 5

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced

acceptance of the present experience.

It isn't more complicated than that.

It is opening to or receiving the present 

moment, pleasant or unpleasant,

just as it is, without either 

clinging to it or rejecting it.

~ Syliva Boorstein

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 21

Life is painful,

suffering is optional.

~ Sylvia Boorstein