When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

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.'

At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.