What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
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.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.
Imperfections create character.