Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

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.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

Christopher 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.

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.