Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

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.'

She's not close enough. She'll never be close enough...

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

Never is an awfully long time.

Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.