Student Writings

The paradox of exerting right effort while sitting with no goal in mind. Here we are on the familiar ground of an apparent Zen paradox: letting go and at the same time exerting some type of effort.

From one perspective, we’re all different. From a wider perspective, we’re all the same. Neither perspective is fully true, it just depends on how you look at it.

The story of good and evil sells because it is simple and easy to understand, yet from a Buddhist viewpoint it can be dangerously deceptive. It keeps us from looking deeper, from trying to discover causes.