It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

When you see someone draining you, your being naturally cuts it off. Yet many times you can be manipulated not to see.

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.