In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.