Value Always Has and Will Be Now.

True value isn?t something we create in our ego-minds. If you look at what we think is valuable, it always devolves to indifference. True value is something that is eternally valuable, always...

Remembering to Awaken

Why Meditate?Be present! Be now! There is something about those commanding words if I focus on them in my meditation that awakens up part of my mind to ultimate truth. I need to remember to take...

Wheels Within Wheels

I am thinking of the words of the song, Windmills of your Mind? ?like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel? and I am reminded of the intellectual mind. What a wonderful refreshment...

Hard Times

I don?t blindly accept that we have to subscribe to the media?s stories of hard times, whatever impending doom they may be indicating. If I sit in my zazen, still the mind and become one with the...

Can Love Be Explained?

Love is a concept that no one can really explain.  No one loves in the same way and all relationships are what I call different types or levels of love.  For instance, you don’t love your parents the...