The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.

The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.

You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found read more

You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel read more

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world read more

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength read more

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.

If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what read more

If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry read more

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.