Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.