Kindle Notes & Highlights
You don’t have to do it perfectly, in fact you can’t, but if you just put one foot on the path you can see the next place to put your foot and it will look like an attractive place to step. So you don’t have to worry that you are not trying hard enough; it really is more a matter of surrendering to a path that is opening in front of you.
Enlightenment is seeing yourself in relation to the greatness of life, the nobility of being human and why we are alive.
"There is really no benefit to meditation ... but the side effects can be great." -- Zen student Jurek Dumchowski *
"In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea." Shunryu Suzuki
We have thoughts; then we usually have thoughts about those thoughts; then we have thoughts about those thoughts, too; and so begins our suffering.
Opinions are not what the Universe presents to me. I've made them up and they usually do not bring me joy.
