A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.

We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.