No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

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

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

It's amazing", he whispered, "to know that my purpose in life is sitting in front of me.

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

The only things I like are either illegal or they make me fat.

We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling.

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.