You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

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.'

Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible

Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

You think you're an artist; prove it

I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.