The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

The restraint of the senses is not a matter of suppression but of wise attention to our experience.

Meditation is not about getting away from it all. It's about getting into it all.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The measure of success in spiritual life is how peaceful you are.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

The Noble Eightfold Path is not a path of mere intellectual understanding but a path of practice, of inner transformation.

Generosity generates its own enthusiasm. We don't have to force ourselves to be generous; we just need to start.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

The goal of Buddhist practice is not to escape from the world but to transform our relationship with it.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

You are the master of your own mind. You can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

The master's introduction is direct recognition of one's own nature. Meditation is maintaining the continuity of this recognition.

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

External phenomena are like a dream, whatever appears is not real. Recognize the nature of dream-like phenomena to be dream-like.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

Our own life has to be our message.

The victorious ones have said that emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. Those who are possessed of the view of emptiness are said to be incurable.

The Buddha's teaching is not a philosophical system but a practical guide to living.

Karma is not fate but the law of moral causation, showing us that we are the architects of our own destiny.

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?

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.