"This is the real secret of life - to be completely
engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of
calling it work, realize it is play."
“No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear,
or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be
made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite
your own teeth.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge
into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
" The first step in Buddhism is right motive, and
to attain enlightenment it is said that we must do away with selfish
desire. But if we have selfish desire in the beginning, surely the desire
to get rid of it is also selfish. We desire to be rid of our selfishness
for a selfish reason, and again we may easily have a selfish reason
for getting rid of the selfish reason for wanting to be selfless."
"You say you do not feel this abandonment right now.
What do you expect to fell? it is not a feeling; it is feeling. It is
not a thought; it is thinking. If it were a particular thought or feeling
there could be coming into it and going out of it; but God is one and
all-inclusive, and here there can be neither coming nor going, inside
or outside. More than this, the great abandonment of enlightenment does
not depend even on feeling and thinking, consciousness or unconsciousness,
living or dying. As the verse says:
this you can not describe, nor paint, nor yet admire, nor feel. "It
is your real self, that has no hiding-place. Destroy the universe, and
it remains."
: A pupil asked his teacher, "what is the Tao(life)? he answered,
"Every day life is the Tao.""How," went on the pupil,
"does one get into accord with it?"
"If you try to accord with it," Said the teacher,
"you will get away from it."
" I have never yet met anyone who tried to become
a real person with success. The result of such attempts is invariably
loss of personality, for there is an ancient paradox of the spiritual
life whereby those who try to make themselves great become small. The
paradox is even a bit more complicated than this; it also means that
if you try, indirectly, to make yourself great by making yourself small,
you succeed only in remaining small. It is all a question of motive,
of what you want."
" There was a young man who said, "Though It
seems that K know that I know,
What I would like to see is the 'I' that knows 'me' When I know that
I know that I know."
