Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

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.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.