An Old Zen Rule Of

Practice Can Be Stated Very Simply. It Is Moving From A Life Of Hurting Myself And Others To A Life Of Not Hurting Myself And Others. That Seems So Simple-except When We Substitute For Real Practice Some Idea That We Should Be Different Or Better Than We Are, Or That Our Lives Should Be Different From The Way They Are. When We Substitute Our Ideas About What Should Be (such Notions As "i Should Not Be Angry Or Confused Or Unwilling") For Our Life As It Truly Is, Then We're Off Base And Our Practice Is Barren.

We're Constantly Waking Up To What We're About, What We're Really Doing In Our Lives. And The Fact Is, That's Painful. But There's No Possibility Of Freedom Without This Pain.

Whenever We Say A Person's Name, Notice Whether We Have Stated More Than A Fact. For Example, The Judgment, 'she's Thoughtless' Goes Beyond The Facts 'she Said She'd Call Me And She Didn't.

We Have Self-centered Minds Which Get Us Into Plenty Of Trouble. If We Do Not Come To Understand The Error In The Way We Think, Our Self-awareness, Which Is Our Greatest Blessing, Is Also Our Downfall.

We Are Just Living This Moment; We Don't Have To Live 150,000 Moments At Once. We Are Only Living One. That's Why I Say You Might As Well Practice With Each Moment.