if only people stopped acting like they've been asked to donate a lung every time somebody asks for something the world would be a better place
To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.
What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it an...
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist and I'm influenced by my readings in that tradition, such as the notion that everyone is born a perfect being and we spend most of our lives with a clouded vision trying...
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and...
See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.
Do not seek for the truth, only stop having an opinion.
With maps and globes decorated around your room as a child and with passport and ticket in hand in the present, it is your world to explore. To travel is to ask for a complex mix of the new and the ol...
A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world i...
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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...
Aggression, Violence, Exploitation, Depression, Despair, Prejudice, War, Intolerance, Poverty, Are all a result of a misunderstanding of the nature of Self.
Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
To commit to the present moment is to accept our inability to control the future and accept that many of our fears and reactions are just what they are, thoughts and emotions that are irrationally int...
The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle thing...
When the cart doesn't move, do you goad the cart or the ox?
Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance
Is the sunrise of Mount Fuji more beautiful from the one you see in the countryside a bit closer to home? Are the beaches of Indonesia really that much more serene than those we have in our own countr...