The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.
The more you know, the less you need.
The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth...
The title of this Chautauqua is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, not Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing, and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very littl...
The true source of happiness is within each of us.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I'm looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.
This is shaping up even worse than you anticipated. Still, you feel a measure of detachment, as if you had suffered everything already and this were just a flashback. You wish that you had paid more a...
To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he...
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what i...
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
Your actions create an energy vortex that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.
You’ve got to live right too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect...
Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.
АДАЖИО „Светлината си свети навън от сутрин до вечер, без да съзнава, че е светлина. Високите дървета вдишват тишина, без да е нужно да дирят дълбоката същност на дървесината. Пустите степи се излягат...
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