Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.

You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

In the Far Eastern languages we have many different words to describe the varying degrees of reality that a thing, a state of mind or plane of being may have.

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.