Weekend Zen, March 29-30

You are the light,

You are the refuge,

There is no place to

take shelter but yourself.

~ Inscription Over the

Buddha's Ashes

Daily Zen - Friday, March 28

I have always known that

at last I would take this road,

but yesterday I did not know

that it would be today.

~ Ariwara No Narihira 

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 27

Walking is Zen.

Sitting too.

~ Zen Saying 

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 26

New beginnings are 

often disguised as

painful endings.

~ Lao Tzu

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 25

Whether we are happy or whether

we suffer depends largely on our

perceptions. It is important to

look deeply into our perceptions

and recognize their source.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Monday, March 24

What saves a man

is to take a step.

Then another step.

It is always the same step,

but you have to take it.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

Weekend Zen, March 22-23

We try so hard to hang on to the teachings

and "get it," but...it doesn't seem to happen

by trying to get it or capture it. It happens

by letting go; it happens by relaxing your

mind, and it happens by...the longing to 

want to communicate with yourself and

others. Each one of us finds our own way.

~ Pema Chödrön

Daily Zen - Friday, March 21

Don't just do something.

Sit there!

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 20

For minds obsessed by

compulsive thinking and

grasping, you simplify your

meditation practice to just

two words –– "let go."

~ Ajahn Sumedho

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 19

Friendship improves happiness and

abates misery, by the doubling of 

our joy and dividing of our grief.

~ Cicero

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 18

The moment you know how

your suffering came to be,

you are already on the path

of release from it.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Monday, March 17

Follow your bliss and the universe

will open doors for you 

where there were only walls.

~ Joseph Campbell

Weekend Zen, March 15-16

When we see into the emptiness 

or illusory nature of things, 

of life and death, of sickness and health, 

of youth and old age, then we're master

 of all things. We are free to be healthy, 

we're free to be sick, we're free to grow old.

~ Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

Daily Zen - Friday, March 14

Simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and thoughts,

you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world.

~ Tao Te Ching

Daily Zen - Thursday, March 13

With all our heart let us be diligent,

engaging in the practice.

Let us live deeply, free from afflictions,

aware of impermanence

so that life does not 

drift away without meaning.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Zen - Wednesday, March 12

No act of kindness,

no matter how small,

is ever wasted.

~ Aesop

Daily Zen - Tuesday, March 11

New growth happens

in directions we never

could have imagined.

~ Albert Camus

Daily Zen - Monday, March 10

Do not go where the path may lead,

go instead where there is no path

and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Zen, March 8-9

And for the rest,

let life happen to you.

Believe me: life is

always in the right.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Zen - Friday, March 7

If you want to go quickly,

go alone.

If you want to go far,

go together.

~ African Proverb