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

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.