In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

(To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

If you really love, then you're willing to step outside of your own love to do that which is right.

Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.