Work Is Love Made Visible
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and...
Real Freedom
"Most of the time, however, we find ourselves moving away from that point. That's our habitual reaction to the world -- grasping after...
Goodness Within
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why...
Travel Light
You read the Spiritual guidebooks. God on $25 a Day. You are inspired. You can't wait to see All the sights So eloquently...
Image of Myself
If the river is flowing and I pull a bucket of water out, as soon as you’ve got the bucket of water out of the river, that water is...
Service of Humanity
From my childhood up, I was troubled about my right to happiness as a matter of course and about the pain which prevails in the world...
Splashes in Life
"My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me...
Thinking
The natural state is not a 'thoughtless state' -- but in this state thought stops choking you; it falls into its natural rhythm. There...
Absence of Fear
"What is love?" "Total absence of fear," said the master. "What is that we fear?" "Love," said the master. - Anthony De...
Catching Anger
A Zen student came to Bankei and said: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper -- how can I cure it?" "Show me this temper," said...
Echo of Life
A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" To...
What is meditation?
The question is not how to meditate, what system to follow, but what is meditation? The 'how' can only produce what the method...