In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.