Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

A garden is never finished.