The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now..

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing return….

Chance favors those in motion..

The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend….

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience..

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve..

Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed...the energies of enlightenment ari….

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there..