You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.

Our seeing is sexual initially.

How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city