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

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.

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.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

For wealth to translate into wellbeing, you need a spiritual element within you. Without that, your success will work against you.

Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks.

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

Pain is temporarily, but pride last forever

Sherry, the civilized drink.

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.