"When I'm walking, I'm walking; when I'm eating, I'm eating; when I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping." ~ Unknown Zen master

Yin-Yang of Happiness

• Nothing on earth can overcome an absolutely nonresistant person.

• When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

• Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. – Basho

• Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing. – Chien-ju

• Sitting peacefully doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.

• Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

• The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

• If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray.

• Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.

• Life is the only thing worth living for.

• Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.

• If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

• When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

• The mind should be as a mirror.

• Everyday life is the way.

• Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. – The three qualities necessary for training.

• If you do not get it from yourself, Where will you go for it?

• Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.

• One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.

• Everything the same; everything distinct. – Chien-ju

• As soon as you sense any lingering or obstruction, all of it is false imagining. Just make your mind clean and free, like space, like a mirror, like the sun in the sky. ~ Yuan Wu