Reality is greater than our dreams.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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.
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.