In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

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.'

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.

Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support.

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.