To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

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.'

Your own chosen paths can never be wrong. It is just the intensity of your curiosity in you which is pretty low.

No shortcut to wisdom.No tollways to be wise.

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Never ignore someone who loves you and cares about you. 'Cause one day you may realize you lost the moon while counting stars.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.