Quotes from Jan Chozen Bays

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.

Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.

Words: First practice leaving no traces. Then practice leaving things better than you found them.

Según las enseñanzas Zen, cada vez que comemos ingerimos la energía vital de incontables seres. La comida en nuestro plato es producto del sol, la tierra, la lluvia, los insectos que polinizaron las plantas y de muchas personas, como labradores, camioneros y tenderos.

Cuando miramos de verdad, todo lo que vemos se torna hermoso: las grietas en la acera, una planta muerta, las arrugadas manos de una anciana. Los navajos advierten a su pueblo: «Caminad por la belleza». Cuando nuestra mirada está atenta, todo es hermosura y todo el mundo camina por la belleza.

way agave syrup went from a miracle sweetener to a dangerous substance.

ritual del oryoki.

it is all too easy for us in this postindustrial era to take eating so for granted that we engage in it with huge unawareness, and also freight it (all puns intended) with complicated psychological and emotional issues that obscure and sometimes seriously distort a simple, basic, and miraculous aspect of our lives.

It is common for healthcare professionals to be able to maintain a demanding work schedule, coping well with frequent medical emergencies and tragedies—until something falls apart in their personal lives.

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.