An Old Zen Rule Of

It's Of No Use To Look Back And Say, "i Should Have Been Different." At Any Given Moment, We Are The Way We Are, And We See What We're Able To See. For That Reason, Guilt Is Always Inappropriate.

Underneath Our Nice, Friendly Facades There Is Great Unease. If I Were To Scratch Below The Surface Of Anyone I Would Find Fear, Pain, And Anxiety Running Amok. We All Have Ways To Cover Them Up. We Overeat, Over-drink, Overwork; We Watch Too Much Television.

How Do We Know If Our Practice Is A Real Practice? Only By One Thing: More And More, We Just See The Wonder. What Is The Wonder? I Don't Know. We Can't Know Such Things Through Thinking. But We Always Know It When It's There.

With Unfailing Kindness, Your Life Always Presents What You Need To Learn. Whether You Stay Home Or Work In An Office Or Whatever, The Next Teacher Is Going To Pop Right Up.

There Are Many People In The World Who Feel That If Only They Had A Bigger Car, A Nicer House, Better Vacations, A More Understanding Boss, Or A More Interesting Partner, Then Their Life Would Work. We All Go Through That One. Slowly We Wear Out Most Of Our 'if Onlies.