The greatest effort is not concerned with results..

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us..

If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outs….

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian..

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn you….

I'm just the worst little Buddhist in town..

I came to California in 1970 and so many people were asking if I was a Buddhist or knew Zen theory, asking if I was enlightened already or not. So I ….

I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sens….

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule..

The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic pat….

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain wheth….

I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian tsumai. It happened around Ch….

Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We ….

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a….

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized….

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached..

The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the ….

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, ….