Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.