No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.

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.'

The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.

Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.

Take no moment for granted.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels

We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.