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.

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.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.