A man without a dream is a man who has yet to wake up.

When the skies are blue and the weather is cold, the skies are blue. When the skies are gray and the weather is warm, the weather is warm.

If you have nothing to say, say it !

"Travel light". This advice pretty much embodies all the Zen philosophy. At least in my humble understanding.

It feels like, more and more, that contentment for the mind is much like strength for the muscles. Some people have it naturally, but most of people have to exercise to have it. It just does not happen by itself.

As physical exercise is to give physical strength to the muscles, meditation is to give contentment to the mind. As without exercise the muscle stays weak, without meditation the mind is unable to find contentment.

The hardest thing in Buddhism practice is to develop love for all things, all animated and inanimate beings. Not only things but events too. Maybe the difficulty of doing so is the reason why Zen does not focus much on Love. Zen focus on training the mind off distractions, attachments, addictions, delusions, for suffering to unfold as Love in the form of gratitude by itself.

The funny thing to me is that in the end, I must find gratefulness to the same distractions, attachments, addictions and delusions, to the suffering that I am trying to get rid of. It is hard to me to accept that suffering is generated only by the lack of gratitude. Maybe because I am not grateful (?)

Can the whole Universe stay the same when only one sole individual change, seen that every individual is the center and source of the whole Universe?