Simple Mind Zen

"The mind is host, the body is guest." Zen master and historical figure, Bassui was born in Japan in 1327. Rejected by his mother...

Sometimes we want to help others. When we give assistance to others it comes in different ways. It may be quiet, relying upon the attentive...

"We must not discriminate." -- Cultivating the Mind of Love by Thich Nhat Hanh Writing on the Ultimate Dimension , Buddhist monk...

There are many seemingly simple spiritual practices that when engaged often bring to a person some surprising and purely deep results. Wh...

"Most of us go into relationships to find security; we want to be with someone else who makes us feel safe… Spiritually the answer to ...

"As to the sage, no one will know whether he existed or not."   --- Lao Tsu The book, The Parting of the Way, by Holmes Welch, ...

"To say that you don't know, is the beginning of knowing."    -- a Chinese proverb Cultivating the Mind of Love i s one of...

"I realized that none of what I feared was happening now, nor had it ever happened!"  --Being Zen by Ezra Bayada In his book, ...

"...One who is ascended has achieved [the] Christ's injunction to be in this world but not of it." --The Path to Love by Dee...

"Emptiness, or how to untie what has never been tied" --Sunyata Learn to yield and be soft If you want to survive Learn to bow...

"Words become more personal the more emotional they are."  The Path to Love by Deepak Chopra In loving practice, the " mos...

"Because you are alive, everything is possible." --Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh Buddhist author and teacher...

Vishnu, Hindu god, declares in the Bhagavad Gita that whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten or set aside, he will ...

 "Chod belongs to both sutra and tantric teaching; it's origins are in the prajanaparamitra teaching."  -- Unbounded Wholene...

" Parents worry that their kids' beliefs will be influenced by exposure to other faiths. They needn't be." Sacred Ground ...

"The social aspirations of man cannot attain full originality and full value, except in a society which respects man's personal in...

"Humankind are creatures in which spirit and material meet together and are unified in a single whole."-- Ratzinger The word so...

"The withering hope in eternity is simply the reverse side of a withering faith."   J. Ratzinger For as far back as recorded hi...

There are times when others behave or speak in ways that are out of our comfort zone; in ways that we don't ordinarily think about or ...

"The Lotus sutra is king of all Mahayana sutras."  --Cultivating the Mind of Love by Thich Nhat Hanh In every spiritual tradit...