As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.