FOUR ALL–EMBRACING VOWSBeings are numberless; I vow to awaken them.Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to transform them.Dharmas are boundless; I vow to comprehend them.The awakened way is incomparable; I vow to embody it. Excerpted from:Zen Chants: Thirty-Five Essential Texts with CommentaryKazuaki Tanahashi, page 30.
THE WATERFALL OF PEACEWe often say that meditation practice is about the development of peace. By peace, we mean the experience of being precisely on the dot, which cools down the jumpiness of our minds and the heat of our emotional neurosis. Experiencing this precision is analogous to sitting under a waterfall and letting a cool mountain stream p...
Do affirmations work?I've always had issues with affirmations. I first encountered them in Louise Hay'sYou Can Heal Your Life, a book whose "big idea" is that our emotions create the root cause of all physical ailments. The book lists a number of physical illnesses and the supposed emotional cause behind each one, along with an affirmatio...
