There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.
Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.
Life is no way to treat an animal.