When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

- Bill Porter

Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading …

- Bill Porter

There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for…

- Bill Porter

When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' E…

- Bill Porter

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

- Bill Porter

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals …

- Bill Porter

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

- Bill Porter

This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions…

- Bill Porter