Brooklyn Zen Center

"Letting contradiction live is part of not making life small and allowing for complexity, a fuller sense of meaning and value."

"Though the conditioning of violence is thick—and it is old and sometimes it can feel calcified and intractable—it isn't. We are changeable, we can change ourselves, we can change how we think, we can change our habits. We can choose whether or not we are complicit in harming."

“The practice of equanimity is a practice of care, of bringing very close care to your body. What is happening right now as we sit? "

"Sometimes it can look like the project is not to feel and not to listen to pain. But can we start, instead, to regard our pain as a kind of superpower?"