Zen Proverb

What you possess, you lose.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

The ordinary mind is the way.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The Bible does not need advertising by me, but I wish more people could be persuaded to read it. Perhaps if they had been, we should not have this war on our hands. For greed and idleness brought it on.

The ordinary mind is the way.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

The Kingdom of God is Within You,