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Every reality is eternal, every essence is as is: just don’t seek outwardly. If you have a great root of faith, the buddhas are just states of your own experience; whether you are walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, never is it not this. –Hsuan-sha From Teachings of Zen, edited by Thomas Clearly, © 1998.…

A head of gray hairs Doesn’t mean one’s an elder. Advanced in years, One’s called an old fool. But one in whom there is Truth, restraint, Rectitude, gentleness, Self-control– He’s called an elder, His impurities disgorged, Enlightened. –Dhammpada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

“I come from the East, most of you [here] are Westerners. If I look at you superficially, we are different, and if I put my emphasis on that level, we grow more distant. If I look on you as my own kind, as human beings like myself, with one nose, two eyes, and so forth,…

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind. -Ajahn Chah, “Still Forest Pool” From “365 Buddha:…
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