Brooklyn Zen Center Brooklyn Zen Center

"Sometimes it can look like the project is not to feel and not to listen to pain. But can we start, instead, to regard our pain as a kind of superpower?"

"Let’s encourage each other to dance with our vows, to dance with the taste of our freedom."

"In the stability of practice, we have to humanize everybody."

"Sometimes, when we are trying to understand how to work with the suffering of the world, we might fall into the belief that, somehow, I need to build up an individual, personal capacity to hold all of the suffering of the world. Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara tried that, and her head and her arms exploded."

"We are all sensitive beings that are feeling everything that has happened."

"We train in stillness so that we can respond in the world with the possibility of healing things that previously haven't been healed."