Right now, it’s like this.
Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.
Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
The valley stream’s rushing sound is the eloquent tongue of Buddha. The mountain’s vibrant colours are nothing but the Buddha’s form.
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
The ordinary mind is the way.
I’m essentially agnostic. I don’t have a problem with God. I have a problem with religion. I’ve chosen to live my life without the certainties of religious faith. I think they’re dangerous. Music is something that gives my life value and spiritual solace.
I’m the fifth generation of Seventh Day Adventists and the youngest of four brothers. When I was still very small, we formed a gospel quartet.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.
Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
