Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and noting the course of the currents.

The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion these seeds would never spout.

Forgiveness is the only battery that can power our relationship with God and other men like us.

It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain.

Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

I finally figured out how to read origami directions.