Nirvana, The Waterfall

Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor difficulty in our life.

To Polish a Tile

When you become you, Zen becomes Zen. When you are you, you see things as they are, and you become one with your surrounding.

Mind Weeds

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Look Within

Realize the Heaven within you and all at once all desires are fulfilled, all misery and suffering is put an end to. Feel yourselves above the body and its environment, above the mind and its motives, above the thoughts of success or fear. The great cause of suffering in the world is that people do not look within, they rely on outside forces.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Weakness is Death

That is the cause of misery: we are attached; we are being caught. Therefore say the Gita: Work constantly; work, but be not attached, be not caught. Reserve unto yourself the power of detaching yourself from everything, however beloved, however much the soul might yearn for it, however great the pangs of misery you feel if you were going to leave it whenever you want. The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to any kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. This is the great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Dynamo of Spirituality

Do not spend your energy on talking but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it. Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
- Swami Vivekananda

Offering to Humanity

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
- Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works, 5:239