You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

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.'

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

I think my family, especially having three teenage sons, keeps my cooking at home grounded and very approachable. I'm definitely not making spumas in my kitchen, that's for sure!

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?