Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph.D. and started to teach. I wrote books.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

It is better when you are in the world. You know how much pain there is. You can tell how established you are in the light. To remove yourself from the things you desire or things you find difficult to deal with is no answer.

Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.