Three or four times, I have had the great death but my life is lived in the million tiny moments that make up the one dance

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!

A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

Perfection is an impossible destination

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.