Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.

The Tathagatha... is the originator of the path unarisen before, the producer of the path unproduced before, the declarer of the path undeclared before. He is the knower of the path, the discoverer of the path, the one skilled in the path. And his disciplines now dwell following that path and become possessed of it afterwards.