The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers.

It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.

Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.