The ordinary mind is the way.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
What was never lost can never be found.
What you possess, you lose.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
Believe in something larger than yourself…get involved in the big ideas of your time.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.
Zen has no business with ideas.
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.
Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.
I have a habit of running from the things I’ve prayed for and then asking God to send them again.
