Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one s feelings

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Wisdom happens through meditation and bliss also happens through meditation Both the flowers bloom on the same branch

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Every cloud doesn't have a silver lining but make time to look at the beauty of clouds can give you peace of mind

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.

If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.