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.
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.
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
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.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.
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.
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
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.
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.'
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
Hell is not punishment, it's training.
You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.
Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.
Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.
Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.
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