Simple Mind Zen

"Take up the way of meeting others on equal ground." --Buddhist precept as discussed by Diane Rizzetto in her book, Waking Up t...

"The images that we carry about in our reverie, in our dreams, in our deepest waking hearts become vividly real to the aware, awake ...

"We are made to seek happiness." The Art of Happiness by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama "The basic, underlying nature of the ...

"Without true mindfulness, we live like the dead."  --True love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh "Thr...

Update: The story is similar, the place is an elementary school in Connecticut. The gun violence is obvious, but maybe not so the illness p...

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

The recent events in a Colorado movie theater brings the topic of the mentally ill yet again to fore. This most recent mass shooting brings...

"This is the practice of living deeply in the moment. If you worry too much, you will suffer." --Going Home by Thich Nhat Hanh ...

"We are made to seek happiness." The Art of Happiness by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama "The basic, underlying nature of the ...

"Take up the way of meeting others on equal ground." --Buddhist precept as discussed by Diane Rizzetto in her book, Waking Up to ...

"Whether you can see the Buddha or not depends on you, on the state of your being." --Thich Nhat Hanh Writing in Living Buddha, Li...

Recognize that a concept is just a concept, and not reality. --Joko Charlotte Beck Generalizations. Assumptions. We all make them. And they ...

I take up the way of meeting others on equal ground. --Buddhist precept as discussed by Diane Rizzetto in her book, Waking Up to What You D...