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You Carry Your Wound
You carry your wound. With the ego, your whole being is a wound. And you carry it around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is...
The Fallacy of Togetherness
Make friends with those who are on the path at least as much as you are. If they do not take you forward, at least they do not become a...
The Art of Staying in Balance
The most difficult thing, the almost impossible thing for the mind, is to remain in the middle, to remain balanced. And to move from one...
Truth is Alive through Alertness
Your truth can be alive only if it comes through alertness, not through precepts and principles. Each moment, you have to be alert in...
Divided You Suffer, United You Dance
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life....
Only Real Thing
Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the...
A True Rebel
It is an old association, and a misunderstanding, that to be a nonconformist is to be a rebel. The nonconformist is a reactionary; he...
No Homes, Only Houses
There is no home, there are only houses. We try to make homes out of houses, but in fact, home is projection -- there is only a house...
Sadness Starts Laughing
Be of good cheer. Let cheerfulness become a climate that surrounds you day in, day out. Cheerfulness should not remain just an emotion...
Your Abundance
Love is innocent when there is no motive in it. Love is innocent when it is nothing but a sharing of your energy. You have too much, so...
Totality Not Perfection
The very idea of perfectionism drives people crazy. The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life till he is...
Effort And Effortlessness
With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive to no-mind. There are two types...
Change Your Mind Not Actions
My own experience is that if you can be silent, and if you can transcend mind and your consciousness can grow, it does not matter what...
Mind is a Projector
Mind is a projector. You sit in a movie house and you see a thousand and one things passing on the screen, and the screen is empty;...
Come To Your Own Conclusions
"Always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, 'Because I say so, it...
Catching Anger
A Zen student came to Bankei and said: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper -- how can I cure it?" "Show me this temper," said...
When Stillness Comes on Its Own
"The old habits will continue; the thoughts will go on rushing. And your mind is always in a rush hour, the traffic is always...