Regard him as one who points out treasure, the wise one who seeing your faults rebukes you. Stay with this sort of sage. For the one who stays with a sage of this sort, things get better, not worse.

- Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

If I had supernatural power, I could take you up to the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha for a visit, or to the Kingdom of God if you are a Christian. I am sure that everything would be nice and clean there, with beautiful scenery. But once you were there, how would your footsteps be? Can you be sure that your footprints on the Pure Land would not show traces of worries and sorrows you carried from this samsaric, worldly life? If you take your worries and sorrows along with you and set them on the Pure Land, you would defile the Pure Land and make it much less pure! To deserve the Pure Land, you must be able to take peaceful and anxiety-free steps right here on this samsaric ground.

- Thich Nhat Hanh, "Guide to Walking Meditation"

You really have to know your own fundamental mind before you can stop and rest. If you know your mind and arrive at the fundamental, that is like space merging with space.

- Ta-tu
For whom, in name & form in every way, there's no sense of mine, & who doesn't grieve for what's not: he's deservedly called a monk.

Remain silent, and you sink into a realm of shadows; speak, and you fall into a deep pit. Try, and youre as far away as sky from earth; give up, and youll never attain. Enormous waves go on and on, foaming breakers flood the skies whos got the bright pearl that calms the oceans?

- I Ching

- Dhammapada, 25, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu


How very happily we live, free from busyness among those who are busy. Among busy people, free from busyness we dwell.

- Dhammapada, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu