Author: DhammaSeeker

“I don’t seek enlightenment, nor am I deluded, I don’t worship Buddha, nor am I disrespectful. I don’t sit for long periods, not am I lazy. I don’t eat only once a day, nor am I a glutton. I am not contented, nor am I greedy. When the minds does not seek anything, this is called the Way.”
~Jayata

“From the outset your own nature is pure.”
~The P’s-sa-chieh

“No matter how much
I contemplate this tea bowl
It is still — a tea bowl!
Thus I arrive in San Francisco.”
~Soen Nakagawa

“Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.”
~Carl Sagan

“Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight, since we do not possess it, and thus need not fear its loss.”
~John Cage

“I have been reading your Descartes. Very interesting. ‘I think, therefore I am.’ He forgot to mention the other part. I’m sure he knew, he just forgot: ‘I don’t think, therefore I’m not.'”
~Katagiri Roshi

“I saw the whole idea of spiritual renunciation as a kind of joke, trying to make oneself let go of ordinary life and pleasures. In fact, nirvana is so open and joyful, is so much more than any of the small pleasures we grasp after. You don’t renounce the world, you gain the world.”
~A western master

“I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time — just one, one, one. So you begin. I begin — I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand…. The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin — one, one, one.”
~Mother Teresa

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
~Sir Isaac Newton