If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.