In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.

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.

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

There are no rules. Nothing you can do will take you to liberation; therefore, nothing you avoid will help you along the path to liberation.. Everything is liberation.

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.