If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

The terrible beauty is that in the brotherhood of golf we are all the same - certifiable.

I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.