Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.
Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.
To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend.
No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.
Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true.
You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist. . . should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.
Why should we tie everyone's future to athletic success? I think organic farm has saved our school. It saved it because it changed the narrative of the institution. We're the first urban work college in the country. And so our students learn what it means to be effective and to have job skills and work skills.
Christ was the first to be resurrected and never die again.
So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people.