…the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.