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I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I'll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

You can't life in paradise- but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

You won't understand life and death until you're ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter
is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Same deal here. It's not "you" and "the universe." It's "universeyou.

As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

Nothing can be separated from everything else.

Just know that your expectations are only thoughts in your head, and keep on doing what you do.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.

Morality is a personal matter.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

If we can all agree that none of us really knows what God actually is, maybe we can stop fighting about what we imagine God to be.

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

You can master tantric yogic poly-orgasmic Wonder Sex but you're still gonna die alone.

Do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

We ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop.

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

When you're so committed to the future, it's real easy to let your life right now turn to shit.

Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back.