"What is called sitting-zen, sitting-meditation, is not meditation that is learned. It is the Dharma-gate of effortless ease." - Dogen.

The mind is like a noisy kitchen blender… filled with all kinds of rattlin’ stuff.

"The mind is like a noisy kitchen blender… filled with all kinds of rattlin’ stuff." - Zen Master Jundo of the TreeLeaf.org Sangha.

Buddha-nature is always clean and pure; Where is there room for dust to alight? - Huineng

What is the path? the Zen Master Nan-sen was asked. Everyday life is the path, he answered.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ~Robert M. Pirsig

He who has a clear and certain understanding of these things will direct every preference and aversion toward securing health of body and tranquility of mind, seeing that this is the sum and end of a blessed life. - Epicurus

"Our one need is untroubled existence." - Epicurus