Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

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.

Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.