Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time,… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime.… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something,… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations,… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
