A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.