Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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.

Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.

Regret for not learning

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

The world has no room for cowards.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?