You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Saints need sinners.
I owe my solitude to other people.
Reality is only a Rorschach ink blot, you know.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
