When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

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.

Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.

How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.

The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.

The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.