As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything
You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
Hell is not punishment, it's training.
Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.
It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.
Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.
When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.
Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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