An Old Zen Rule Of Thumb Is

Life Is A Second-by-second Miracle.

We Are Just Living This Moment; We Don't Have To Live 150,000 Moments At Once. We Are Only Living One. That's Why I Say You Might As Well Practice With Each Moment.

An Old Zen Rule Of Thumb Is Not To Answer Until One Has Been Asked Three Times.

Enlightenment Is Not Something You Achieve. It Is The Absence Of Something. All Your Life You Have Been Going Forward After Something, Pursuing Some Goal. Enlightenment Is Dropping All That.

What Does Open Us Is Sharing Our Vulnerabilities. Sometimes We See A Couple Who Has Done This Difficult Work Over A Lifetime. In The Process, They Have Grown Old Together. We Can Sense The Enormous Comfort, The Shared Quality Of Ease Between These People. It Is Beautiful, And Very Rare. Without This Quality Of Openness And Vulnerability, Partners Don't Really Know Each Other; They Are One Image Living With Another Image.