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| Ezra Bayda received Dharma Transmission from Joko Beck in 1998, and now lives, writes and teaches at the Zen Center of San Diego. He also has a meditation group in Santa Rosa. He is the author of Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life; Shambhala, 2002 and At Home in the Muddy Water A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos; Shambhala, 2003 |
Practice is about
experiencing the truth of who we really are.
Practice is about
being with our life as it is,
not as we would like it to be.
Practice is about
the clash between what we want and what is.
Practice is about
the transformation
of our unnecessary suffering.
Practice is about
attending to, experiencing,
wherever we are stuck, wherever we’re holding,
whatever blocks us from our true nature.
Practice is about
turning away from constantly seeking comfort and from trying to avoid
pain.
Practice ultimately
deals with just one thing: the fear at the base of human existence—the
fear that I am not.
Practice is about
willingly residing in
whatever life presents to us.
Practice is about
seeing through our belief systems; so even if they remain, they no longer
run us.
Practice is about
turning from a self-centered view to a life-centered view.
Practice is about
learning to be no one;
not giving solidity to any belief system—just being.
Practice is about
learning to be happy; but we will never be happy until we truly experience
our unhappiness.
Practice is about
slowly increasing our awareness of who we are and how we relate to life.
Practice is about
moving from a life of drama
to a life of no drama.
Practice is always
about returning to the true self.
Practice is about
finally understanding the paradox that although everything is a mess,
all is well.
Practice is about
learning to say “Yes” to everything, even when we hate it.
Practice always comes back to just the willingness to be.