The ordinary mind is the way.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Music brought me closer to the idea of God.
Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it’s the universe that’s breathing.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others is the ultimate source of success in life.
Buddhist practice is simply a system directed to the one end of lessening the suffering of life.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
