Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not possible. This result oriented mind is the only barrier, the only block. There are not many blocks, the only block is that of the result oriented mind: never here-now, always somewhere else thinking of the result; while making love, thinking about the result.

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.