“Your mind can’t do its job if it’s filled with inflexible ideologies and judgments. A degree of emptiness is required to let thoughts come and go without letting them sit around and go stale. Meditation encourages this flow of ideas. Metaphorically, the in and out movements of the breath provide a f…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“The Western mind tends to have a really hard time adapting to the most important concepts in Zen. As a result, the type of Zen that is usually sold to large audiences is not Zen at all, but a sort-of goal-oriented New Age spirituality labeled as Zen. It is much easier to read a few books than it is…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com