The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

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 virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.

... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles.

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.