Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

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.'

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

Maybe knowledge is power, but it's damned hard to think a burglar to death.

If you want a job making toys, move to China.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

the soul of conversation is sympathy