1. “Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
2. “When something dies is the greatest teaching.”
3. “There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.”
4. “Hell is not punishment, it’s training.”
5. “We have to study with our warm heart, not with our brain.”
6. “To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.”
7. “When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we men by practice.”
8. “A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.”
9. “The purpose of practice is just to be yourself.”
10. “Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.”
11. “When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.”
12. “A garden is never finished.”
13. “Time goes from present to past.”
14. “In reflecting our problems, we should include ourselves.”
15. “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.”
16. “Treat every moment a your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
17. “You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.”
18. “Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.”
19. “Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.”
20. “In beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.”
21. “It is easy to have calmness inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
22. “Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.”
23. “The world is its own magic”
24. “Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.”
25. “Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.”
26. “People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.”
27. “It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.”
28. “The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.”
29. “The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.”
30. “To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.”
