What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Because you think you have body or mind, you have lonely feelings, but when you realize that everything is just a flashing into the vast universe, you become very strong, and your existence becomes very meaningful.

moment is enough.

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.

So in activity there should be calmness, and in calmness there should be activity. Calmness and activity are not different.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transiency, we suffer. So the cause of suffering is our non-acceptance of this truth. The teaching of the cause of suffering and the teaching that everything changes are thus two sides of one coin. But subjectively, transiency is the cause of our suffering. Objectively this teaching is simply the basic truth

BEGINNER’S MIND “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

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.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.