In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

The world is its own magic.

Discipline is creating the situation.

Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

We must exist right here, right now!

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

The true practice of meditation is to sit as if you were drinking water when you are thirsty.

In our practice, we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

When you do something you should burn yourself up completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself.

Zen is not some kind of excitement but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately although it is true it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience we suffer.

To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Hell is not punishment its training.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.