If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell .

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.