It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.

It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

Many people, including Buddhist monks, spend thousands of hours sitting in what they call meditation. In reality, what they're doing is thinking and ruminating upon their problems.