Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.