When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the degree of self-control, not coldness that someone has.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.