Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, i….

You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for ….

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be misse….

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail..

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority..

In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned cheeks. th….

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once..