If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good..

When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whateve….

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality b….

There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and a child, and all these things get in the wa….

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist..

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well..

As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left Judaism. We ….

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus….

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure..

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an ….

I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a monk in Buddhist time a….

Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out lau….

Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter..

The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed….

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist ….

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into a….

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enli….

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going..

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things..

As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind of soul and is the Buddha in some se….

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden..