The teaching or the rules should be changed according to the place, or according to the people who observe them, but the secret of this practice cannot be changed. It is always true.

When you sit, everything sits with you.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change. That everything changes is the basic truth for each existence. No one can deny this truth, and all the teaching of Buddhism is condensed within it.

Our life can be seen as a crossing of a river. The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

The big mind in which we must have confidence is not something which you can experience objectively. It is something which is always with you, always on your side. Your eyes are on your side, for you cannot see your eyes, and your eyes cannot see themselves. Eyes only see things outside, objective things. If you reflect on yourself, that self is no

In some ways Buddhism is rather polemical, with some feeling of controversy in it, because the Buddhist must protect his way from mystic or magical interpretations of religion.

Nighttime and daytime are not different. The same thing is sometimes called nighttime, sometimes called daytime. They are one thing.

So in love there should be hate, or nonattachment. And in hate there should be love, or acceptance. Love and hate are one thing. We should not attach to love alone. We should accept hate.

The reason everything looks beautiful is because it is out of balance, but its background is always in perfect harmony.