“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.”
“If we are able to become one with God through complete abandonment of self, it will be easy to see that all being is one in God.”
Source: Zen and the Bible
“When you see the Sun setting over the horizon, you feel like you've entered into a beautiful art piece. A meditative mind gets that feeling 24×7. The world feels like an art village for those who walk through it slowly.”
“Life has to be freed and lived, instead of being known.”
Source: Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa