An Old Zen Rule Of Thumb Is

In Spiritual Maturity, The Opposite Of Injustice Is Not Justice But Compassion.

Caught In The Self-centered Dream, Only Suffering; Holding To Self-centered Thoughts, Exactly The Dream; Each Moment, Life As It Is, The Only Teacher; Being Just This Moment, Compassion's Way.

How Do We Know If Our Practice Is A Real Practice? Only By One Thing: More And More, We Just See The Wonder. What Is The Wonder? I Don't Know. We Can't Know Such Things Through Thinking. But We Always Know It When It's There.

We Are Always Doing Something To Cover Up Our Basic Existential Anxiety. Some People Live That Way Until The Day They Die.

We Are Caught In The Contradiction Of Finding Life A Rather Perplexing Puzzle Which Causes Us A Lot Of Misery, And At The Same Time Being Dimly Aware Of The Boundless, Limitless Nature Of Life. So We Begin Looking For An Answer To The Puzzle.