Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.