Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.
The teacher is never a giver of truth. He is a guide, a pointer to the truth each student must find for himself.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
The unconditioned mind intuits truth.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
Real friends are like diamonds — precious and rare.
Fake friends are like leaves in the fall — everywhere.
Fake friends are like leaves in the fall — everywhere.
He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being.
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.
The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
Do not pray for easy life, pray for strength to endure a difficult one.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion.
To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness, only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.