“You come into the natural state by letting go of control by letting go of effort and resting in a state of vividness. It’s very simple. It couldn’t be simpler. Sit down; let everything be as it already is.”
Source: True Meditation: Allowing Everything to Be as It Is
“Your mind is too focussed on human beings. Observe the patterns, shapes, colours, texture, sounds and sensations around you. Soon you will come out of human identity and realize that you're not a person but a presence. You're not something that exists; you're the existence itself.”
“[Zuzuki-roshi] I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.”
Source: Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
“You can say that before the Absolute all are equal, but there are not two, but one person, who is you.”
Source: Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa
“I’d learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good.”
Source: One Blade Of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir
“If you haven’t been able to be happy, maybe it’s because you’re holding firmly to your idea of happiness”
Source: The Mindfulness Survival Kit: Five Essential Practices
“We still have not yet fully understood electrons and nuclei; for scientists, a speck of dust is very exciting. A particle of dust is a marvel.”
Source: The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries
“If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.”
“Whose little boy are you?”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“Children think that adults know life, uneducated think that educated people know it, poor think that rich know it, subjects think that the rulers know it. The truth is that everyone is equally clueless. Awakened ones know the sweet secret but can't tell it.”