Two Shells Meeting
People are like that here. Strangers smile at you on the beach, come up and offer you a shell, for no reason, lightly, and then go...
Towards Coherence and Unity
If you believe that your life will end with death, what you think, feel, and do has no meaning. Everything will end with incoherence and...
No Wasted Time
The concept of wasted time doesn't exist for a serious meditator. Little dead spaces during your day can be turned into profit. Every...
A Journey Together
If we could take a journey, make a pilgrimage together, without any intent or purpose, without seeking anything, perhaps on returning we...
No Homes, Only Houses
There is no home, there are only houses. We try to make homes out of houses, but in fact, home is projection -- there is only a house...
So I Believed
"The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did...
To Rule Or To Serve
We have to perform action, so let us do it whole-heartedly and let us choose the form of action that we want to do. Now the choice is...
Thank You Silence
how bout getting off these antibiotics how bout stopping eating when I'm full up how bout them transparent dangling carrots how bout...
Live For Others
Each one of you has some special quality, a uniqueness, that others have not. Each one of you is richer or poorer in some way than...
Doing What You Love
You should be doing what you love. What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will...
The Evolutionary Impulse
It is a very rare moment indeed when the evolutionary impulse -- that mysterious urge toward unbounded freedom and our own potential for...
Zen Anecdotes
~~One day I complained to Suzuki Roshi about the people I was working with. He listened intently. Finally, he said, "If you want to see...