Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.
There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.
Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.
The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'
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