Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is aware of being aware. Mi…

- Philip Kapleau

Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound

- Philip Kapleau

Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that…

- Philip Kapleau

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

- Philip Kapleau

Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the sam…

- Philip Kapleau

You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of standing on the banks and not…

- Philip Kapleau

The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or e…

- Philip Kapleau

To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and…

- Philip Kapleau

Although we all possess the seeds of great love and compassion, without the light of the enlightened one's wisdom and the waters of their compassion …

- Philip Kapleau