Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how when you first meditate, thoughts of your day may fill your mind. But eventually, you will experience a silence.

God isn’t going to talk to you in words. He has no mouth.

Junaid, a Sufi Master, seemed an ordinary laborer. And one of his young apprentices often wanted to display his great knowledge of things. Junaid says, “I am not so young as to know so much.”

When you know that you do not know, that is when you are most receptive to wisdom.

Mencius said that people are basically compassionate. The way of searching it to look for the mind and heart that you’ve let go of.

But many naturally find this paradoxical: how can a mind whose function is to think—not think.

One day Chuang Tzu took a nap under a tree. And his fellow travelers noticed how uneasy he was in his slee ...