If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

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.'

Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.

A blank page and time ignite infinite possibilities in a mind unyielding to boundaries.

It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.