Whether we know it or not, this life is an abundant treasure house.
Mahayana
Final Lesson, by Arthur Braverman
And he [Uchiyama Kôshô Roshi] told us ‘to look at zazen and not at him as our teacher’. It’s almost as if he knew some of us would become disappointed in him and he didn’t want our disappointment to carry over into our zazen…
The Heart Sutra, Harada Sekkei Roshi
Our purpose for living is to become No-mind/No-self, and a person who has become No-mind/No-self is called a Buddha. Each action we make is completely Empty, it is Nothingness, and if we express this using words, this is the ‘Buddha-dharma’. It is not possible for the ego to intervene in the Dharma…
There is a treasure in our own house, by Trevor Leggett
This comes again and again. There is something hidden even in the terrible experiences we have, which ― if we have spiritual sight and discrimination ― we can find. There is a treasure in our own house which we often don’t see. We can say, ‘Well, how can there be?’…
Dharma-Seal of the Unborn, by Kusan Sumin
Everyone originally possesses the Dharma-Seal of the Unborn; so why do you still search for it? Have you realized it yet?
Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times, by The Dalai Lama
His Holiness talks about ethics and compassion…
Tantric View of Nonattachment, by Francesca Fremantle
When we are happy we usually do not want to hear anything about detachment, because the little self likes being involved in pleasant experiences and thinks it would spoil the fun…
Fingers and Moons
The well-known Zen Buddhist phrase ‘the finger pointing at the moon’ refers to the means and the end, and the possibility of mistaking one for the other…
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