"Caring for this posture: balanced, awake, present, and relaxing into stillness. In this practice I’m not trying to make anything happen—simply be present with what’s here. Trusting that this presence is, itself, a force of transformation."

"Are our thoughts or actions moving in the direction of healing the delusion of being separate? Or are they deepening that wound?"

BZC‘s administrative director Ryan Lee Wong in conversation with author Chenxing Han on her book one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care.

Image by Lan Le

"The truth in Zen is not something we can know, or grasp. But it’s a liberating truth, one that we experience in relationality—we open to it."

Even when there is really clear awakening, that awakening is useless until it’s turned toward suffering.

What I don’t look at, what I will not face, runs my life. From a bodhisattva perspective, denial is a disaster.

How do we reconcile our behavior with the eight-fold path? Are we always deluded?

We are trying to wake up to that activity of how grasping creates the sense of self that we think we need to walk through life.

We do want people to be able to be whole, to live the full expressions of their lives, to be able to have choices about what happens. And to be able to be free in a collective way of freedom where freedom means we are caring for one another.

If we do not view and respond to every human being as a tender, vulnerable body deserving of our love, we are wrong.