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

- James H. Austin

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…

- James H. Austin

Chance favors those in motion.

- James H. Austin

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

- James H. Austin

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

- James H. Austin

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…

- James H. Austin

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

- James H. Austin

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

- James H. Austin