Rest in Oneness with the Healing ExperienceAt the end of every meditation session, recognize what kind ofhealing experience you are feeling. You could be feeling peace,warmth, bliss, spaciousness, boundlessness, richness, sacredness,or strength. If you have multiple experiences, it can help to recognizethe most prominent one.The goal is to calmly ...
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...
