Occupation: Zen Master Birth: February 24, 1931 Death: May 15, 1995
When you expect something, when you aim at something, right there you dilute your energy; you split your energy, you split your attention and it beco….
Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is..
As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we….
Have good trust in yourself, not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are..
I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is..
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let ….
Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see.….
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When ….
Details are all there are..
Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now..