Daily Zen - Friday, March 23

When you realize that nothing, 

no "thing," ever has the power

to make you permanently happy,

you receive a deeper invitation.

Nothing can make you happy–

and that is the reason for joy.

~ Jeff Foster

Weekend Zen, June 3-4

This moment is not life waiting to happen, 

goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken,

connections waiting to be made, regrets waiting

to evaporate, aliveness waiting to be felt,

enlightenment waiting to be gained. No. 

Nothing is waiting. This is it. This moment is life.

~ Jeff Foster

Weekend Zen, October 1-2

Your sadness, your fear, your loneliness, even your despair

is so fragile, friend. It can break open at any moment. 

A single note in a piece of music can do it. A kind glance

from a stranger. The feeling of the spring breeze 

on your face. A reflection of a bird in flight. 

In any moment, your sorrow can shatter

 into nothingness; it has no more reality than that, 

no more substance than a shadow.

~ Jeff Foster