Student Writings

Our practice is about seeing life as it is. I have sometimes heard of meditation being described as like removing a set of tinted glasses through which one had a coloured view of the world.

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.