What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.
The secret of zen is just two words: not. . . always. . . so.
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few. . . . In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something. ' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything
Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe.
People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.
As far as the hate, it makes me laugh. Everybody is a critic. Every critic I've ever had, they weren't wrestlers. Every wrestler I've ever had critique me, they were always into my stuff or what I'm doing out there. For a non-wrestler, someone who doesn't even know how to lock up, and if we did lock up, they wouldn't know what to do, for them to critique any of us, it really does pop me.