My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.

Those who realise their folly are not true fools.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

...the ten thousand things belong to one storehouse and life and death share the same body.