Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them.

Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

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