Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.
Shunryu SuzukiIf you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
Shunryu SuzukiHappiness 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.
Shunryu SuzukiChristopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Shunryu Suzuki