Control

When I want to watch TV comfortably, I sit and use the remote to control what the TV throws at me. When I to live comfortably I sit zazen and use my mind to control what Life throws at me.

Change

When I change myself, I change the world around. When I change the world around, I change myself.

The Center of the Universe

You are not the center of the Universe, but you are the center of what the Universe is to you.

The answer

Zazen is the answer. Zazen is the answer even when I don't have a question.

The way out is the way in

A couple of days ago, I was thinking about the Eightfold path as eight-lanes highway out of suffering. But, what I forgot to note is that, as I understand, the only way out of suffering is the way in. The way that goes to inside oneself.
The only way out is the way in that is the way through. Meditation, Zazen, gives one that. The way that cuts through dellusion like the sunlight dissipating fog in the morning. Zazen takes one to where one has always been, one's home that one has actually never left but still longs for because one can't see it.
It's a foggy world this one out there. We are already here, home, and we can't see. There is no place for us to go. We long for something that we already have. We are not homeless, we are just blind.

An empty mind = an fulfilling life

After many years, I finally realize, not only in a intellectual level, that as important as food and hygiene are for physical health, meditation is a must for sanity and fulfillment. One could go a day on an empty stomach, but one shouldn’t go a day without meditation. Because what matters having a full stomach when one’s life is empty? Life must be fulfilling, therefore the mind has to be emptied. And that is achieved only through meditation.

Dettachment and a gun

Dettachment looks a lot like knowing how to use a gun to me. You want to know how to do it before you need to. Otherwise, you can find yourself in deep trouble. :)