Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Mind your thoughts, as they become your words. Mind your words, as they become your actions. Mind your actions, as they become you.

There is no path to happiness: Happiness is the path.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

Our God is a forgiving God.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

We’ve had the goddam Ages of Faith, we’ve had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

Zen mind is not Zen mind. Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.