As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.