Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.
In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.
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.
We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
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.
Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
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
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
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.
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.
Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
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