As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.