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• The smallest detail, when cared for lovingly, can turn out to be a masterpiece. It can be the salad you make for dinner.
• Meditate on this Zen saying: Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
• Bring your practice home. Have a seamless practice.
• Choose an everyday task that does not normally get your full attention. As you go about the task, maintain an inner commentary on what you are doing, using the word "now" as much as possible. "I am now adding the soap," etc. Do this for at least 10 minutes. At the end, analyze the effect that this mindfulness had upon the task and how you now see the world. Try to recall the details of the task.
• Sex should have a sacred dimension at the same time as being fun. Put your whole spirit into it and make love as best as you can.
• Zazen transforms dryness, rigidity, and self-centeredness to warmth, resiliency, and compassion; self-indulgence and fear become self-mastery and courage.
• Aim at maintaining the posture of zazen with your flesh and bones, letting go of thoughts. During zazen, we open the hand of thought that is trying to grasp something and simply refrain from grasping. This is letting go of thoughts.
• For a person you know who is suffering, try: May you find peace. May you find healing. For whatever words or actions I have expressed that have harmed you, I ask your forgiveness. I forgive you for the words and actions you have expressed that have harmed me. May I be at peace. May I find the trust and openness to befriend my anger and fear and to soften the harshness I feel.
• Tend to your plants meditatively.
• Choiceless awareness is simply being receptive to whatever unfolds in each moment.
• Mantra for a crying baby: Namo Mati Gana Ja Tse Bute Tse Svaha.
• Practice using a half smile to radiate well-being to yourself and your coworkers. When you have contact with others, do it in a warm, kind, and friendly way.
• Empty the mind.
• Breathe in "one, two, three, four, five" while inhaling and "one, two, three, four, five" while exhaling.