In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.