If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma.

Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.

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

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

Eternity is everywhere, it stretches endlessly in all directions, never beginning and never ending. Merge with it. Embrace it. Be free and disciplined.

If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.