The second of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Action.

The first of eight talks on the Noble Eightfold Path - Right Speech.

We don't just get rid of delusions, as much as we may want to. So how do we treat them?

Hope and despair both come from the same place — no need to trust either one.

How do we deal with panic, fear, sadness, anger? Buddhism isn't therapy—it doesn't take any of it away. But it does raise some worthwhile questions about how we feel, and about how we feel about how we feel.

In both "Precious Mirror Samadhi" and "Harmony of Difference and Equality," there are references to arrow points meeting. This is how it works.

Zen traditionally doesn't talk so much about compassion, yet we chant about it a lot. What are we chanting about? Why?

Zazen as a moment of silence in which we just hold everything. We're doing it already, but we can also choose to.

We have a tendency to take ordinary activities like walking, insert a spiritual feeling, and call it "walking practice."

But what this tradition asks us to explore is dharmic activity, which is not the same thing.

Zen practice is outside of any measurement—it's not a place where you can succeed or fail. So how to proceed?