So we have to do zazen. It’s the most important thing in the life of a human being.
Chan / Seon / Zen
The Grandmotherly Kindness
As far as the Zen masters are concerned, however, they have always been motivated by something beyond this material world and even when they are being apparently extreme or severe, if they are genuine, far from being cruel or uncaring they will be acting from a grandmotherly kindness…
Just One Thing, by Taizan Maezumi Roshi
Life always presents us with pairs. There are always two aspects that complement each other—sun and moon, day and night, mother and father, life and death.
The Awakened Self, Harada Sekkei Roshi
What I want to say is that an ordinary person should truly be an ordinary person, completely giving up seeking mind and practice, and then just to be truly ordinary. That is enough…
Words of love, Iida Toin
We have to realize that life cannot be always easy and pleasant. Suppose there is a…
An introduction to Zen
Short video (4mins): ‘An introduction to Zen’
This is the Miracle, by Trevor Leggett
The teacher said that people today, and always, sell themselves cheap. Somebody who is always saying, ‘I’m no good,’ won’t try at anything because, ‘Things always go wrong for me. And if I do happen to succeed in something, it’s never appreciated; it always goes badly. And is life worth living anyway?’ Such people are selling themselves cheap. They have a treasure in them…
One Door by Kusan Sunim
Sometimes, while practising, it is as easy as pushing a boat over ice. At other times it is as difficult as trying to drag a cow to a well.
