‘The tongue which produces careless speech is like an axe used to kill oneself.’ Kusan Sunim

Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small sense of self, and to rest in awareness. In meditation we do this simply by acknowledging the moment-to-moment...

‘When trying to be still by stopping movement, the stillness itself is kept in motion; persisting with any extreme, how can you know the One?‘ Ta-tsu Hui-k’o

En vísperas del cierre de la ciudad de Nueva York por la pandemia, sentí el miedo a lo desconocido que se respiraba en el aire, así que medité con un árbol torcido cuyas ramas serpenteaban de lado a lado, y las revelaciones de esa meditación me ayudaron a sobrellevar...

‘An intuitive moment is not a rational moment; it isn’t a moment based on common sense and habitual ways of looking at things.’ Ajahn Sumedho

Oh, what a wonderful topic to write about: thank you notes for friends! I really revere friendship and feel overflowing gratitude for the existence and experience of it. A form of love that is simple, spirited, supportive, and soothing all at once. Friends are there...

‘Even when living in the common world, if you don’t become attached to worldly things, you can become your true self.’ Beopjeong Sunim

‘Buddhist meditation has nothing to do with time or attainment, success or failure.’ Zen Graffiti

‘Followers of the way. Whenever the desire to move or say something occurs, first examine the mind.’ Acharya Shantideva

‘Again I ask you, can you fully comprehend the Unmoving Ground you were originally endowed with before your parents gave birth to you? If you have understood, you walk hand in hand with all the Buddhas and Patriarchs of the three time-periods.’ Kusan Sunim