Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
That’s a waste of time. If you really understand Zen. You can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.
Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.
I have lost my smile, but don’t worry. The dandelion has it.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
I AM Here Now As This.
Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
Stop and sink into this timeless moment!
Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.
Having no destination, I am never lost.
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.
The truth is you can’t try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.