In order to see a fish you must watch the water

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win.

One of the greatest challenges a man can ever phase in life is the denial and inability to try new things beyond what he already know”.

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.