Buddhist Proverb

Abandon yesterday, tomorrow and today. Cross over to the farthest shore beyond life and death.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

Right now, it’s like this.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

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

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. I got the idea from a book by Orlando Smith. Until I discovered this theory I was unsettled and dissatisfied-without a compass, so to speak. When I discovered reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan. I realized that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. There was time enough to plan and to create. I wouldn’t give five cents for seeing all the world, because I feel there is nothing in the five continents and on the five seas that I have not somehow seen. Somewhere is a master mind sending brain wave messages to us. There is a Great Spirit. I never did anything by my own volition. I was pushed by invisible forces within and without me. We inherit a native knowledge from a previous existence. Gospel of reincarnation is essence of all knowledge. I do not know where we come from or go to but we accumulate experience. Someday it will be possible to measure the soul. We all retain memories of past lives.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Music brought me closer to the idea of God.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it’s important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. I’m very sensitive to it.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.