Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'