Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)

Until we see what we’re doing, we will do it.

Our fear drives us to stay over here in our lonely self-righteousness.

Meditation is not about some state, but about the meditator.

So our practice is about making fear conscious, instead of running around inside our cell of fear, trying to make it look better and feel better.

We just notice, notice, notice. Then, as mind and body quiet down and the fire burns brighter, out of that will come real thinking and the ability to make adequate decisions. The creative spark of any art is also born in that fire.

all wanting—especially wanting to be a certain way—is centered on ego and fear.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

Complete openness, complete vulnerability to life, is (surprisingly enough) the only satisfactory way of living our life.

So the illusion we have, that practice should always be peaceful and loving, just isn’t so. That the box opens is perfectly normal and necessary.