”…find one thing in your life that you can do beautifully with awareness and do it every day, once it has become a habit find something else, gradually step by step fill your life with the perfume of true practice, the perfume of your true nature, then your life will be filled with meaning and joy.”

– Zen Master Daizan Roshi (my teacher)

As one year draws to a close, and another begins, it's a good time to quietly begin to think about what that one thing in your life that you can do beautifully, with awareness, every day.

It might be something as simple as how you make your morning cup of tea. It might be something as complex as how you earn your living. All things will come in time, possibilities abound…