How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anythin...
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because th...
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffer...
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.
Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.