I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
If object and people evoke attachment in us, we do not understand the true nature of phenomena. We can only become detached by realizing the true nature of things.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
To gain respect - firstly give it.
Eat, drink and be merry (for tomorrow we die).
A crown is no cure for the headache
The respect you can earn is no lesser or greater than your own self-respect. Therefore, respect yourself and God and the world will respect you.
It isn't addition of possessions, but subtraction of desires which promotes happiness.
A smile you sent, will always return
This is the way of Zen, not to say things to their completion. This has to be understood; it is a very important methodology. Not to say everything means to give an opportunity to the listener to complete it.
All answers are incomplete. The master has only given you a direction... By the time you reach the limit, you will know what is going to remain. This way, if somebody is trying to understand Zen intellectually he will fail. It is not an answer to the question but something more than the answer. It is indicating the very reality....
The buddha nature is not something far away - your very consciousness is buddha nature. And your consciousness can witness these things which constitute the world. The world will end but the mirror will remain, mirroring nothing.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.
Nearly every great advance in science arises from a crises in the old theory, through an endeavor to find a way out of the difficulties created. We must examine old ideas, old theories, although they belong to the past, for this is the only way to understand the importance of the new ones and the extent of their validity.
