I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.
Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?