Hardcore Zen

There are no fees, waiting lists, or red tape. Reality happens. Sensations arise. If you're paying careful attention to them, really feeling exactly what it is like to be here now, you're doing it! It's just that simple. Nearly all activities benefit from increased attention, so this paradigm of increasing daily-life presence transmutes your seemin

in an impasse, life becomes more real and more interesting, so much so that it is better to have some impossible problems in your life than not to. In an impasse a risk is required; you have to give yourself completely to a new situation though you have no guarantees that your effort will turn out well.

To live with “what is” is to be peaceful. There is “what is” when there is no comparison at all. Require not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry in which there is no conclusion. Just watch choicelessly and in the watching lies the wonder. There is an awareness without any demand, an awareness in wh

transcendental liberating truth, we come back to our life as it is. Perhaps only when we forget our aspiration to become Buddhas can we really enjoy our lives as ordinary human beings. Let others decide whether we’re acting like a buddha or not. Abandoning self-improvement we exert ourselves fully and naturally as birds who enjoy frolicking in the