Zen Wisdom for Your Everyday Life

How often we wonder where we are, or where someone else may be? There's a sense of being lost in the world, and also a sense that the people we care for are missing. Even when they're right beside us…

Around and around we go in life, enjoying the whirling merry go round. Up and down we go, waiting for the golden ring. Then , at last, dizzy and unsettled, the time comes when it's no longer fun. The…

Often it's hard to take the next step. We don't know where to go, what will happen, or if we're going n the right direction. We can lose years of our lives wondering, doubting ourselves, or fearing t…

We all dash about endlessly, coming and going without end. Where are we going and what are we looking for? Relief, refreshment, fun, success. We start a relationship and then quickly need a break. Ma…

It's natural to think that we must guard what we have, hold onto it tight and be careful not to lose it. No matter how much we hold on though, everything changes and we experience loss. It's as thoug…

The question "What's Next?" is heard over and over. We finish one project and search for the next.  Big changes take place in our life and we immediately dwell upon how we will go on, or what to do o…

We live our lives with the feeling that something important is missing. We may have had it for a little while, but right now, it's gone. So much of our time is then spent searching for what it is we'…

We  feel we are trapped in routines, doing the same thing again and again. So many things are repeated in our lives, including in our relationships. A sense of drudgery and boredom can take over our …

Where do we turn when in the midst of confusion, upset, noise or danger?  When the Mad Mind starts to sing, it can seem as if the whole world turns around, leaving us upset, dislodged and unable to s…

We look for sanity and balance all over the place, thinking there's something wrong with who we are right now.  We think our everyday life, needs, and desires must be transcended, rejected, in order …

We have all kinds of ideas about what love is and wat it is not. Usually there's a very strong standard we live with, about whether or not we are loving. But as Rumi said, "A feeling here one minute …

All of us are searching for a place of rest, warmth and unconditional love and acceptance. We are searching for that which cannot be lost or shaken no matter what happens. In Zen Practice this experi…

All of the pivotal practices in Zen are incredibly simple, and only take a moment. In one moment  everything turns around. Fear turns to compassion, anger to sorrow, hate to love.  And, these pivotal…

Alongside the endless ocean Coney Island is filled with thrills, chills, rides, and houses of horrors. In one particular section there used to be a mirror which, when we looked into it, distorted our…

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Life presents endless questions and contradictions that seem to have no answer. We go round and round trying to figure things out, creating strategies, going over the benefits and costs. And still a …

So much of the struggle, upset, anger and difficulty we experience comes when life presents something we did not expect. Of course this happens many times a day. How could this be happening? we ask, …

We all have pre set visions of how our lives are supposed to turn out, where we're headed and what we're supposed to achieve.  Much of our upset in life is due to the fact that the reality of how thi…

Many of us feel stuck in our lives these days, unable to move on and take the next steps. Then we become restless, frustrated or depressed. But in truth, it is impossible to be stuck. An experience i…

When we go to visit and knock on someone's door, we often call out, "Is Anyone Home?" 
How badly we want someone to be there, greet us, offer a  smile, hug, a real connection. Not many want to walk in…