“Apprentices have asked me, what is the most exalted peak of cuisine? Is it the freshest ingredients, the most complex flavors? Is it the rustic, or the rare? It is none of thesse. The peak is neither eating nor cooking, but the giving and sharing of food. Great food should never be taken alone. What pleasure can a man take in fine cuisine unless he invites cherised friends, counts the days until the banquet, and composes an anticipatory poem for his letter of invitation?”

“Saat kita harus menghadapi kekuatan alam, kita akan belajar untuk mempercayai. Bukan percaya begitu saja. Manusia bisa jauh lebih berbahaya daripada binatang liar. Kita pasti bisa mengetahui siapa yang bisa kita percayai. Kita harus tahu siapa yang akan menyelamatkan kita, jika kita terjebak bahaya dan siapa yang bisa kita beri senjata dan siapa yang membuat kita merasa aman saat membelakanginya. Yang paling penting, kita harus tahu siapa yang bisa kita ajak berbicara dari hati ke hati, tanpa dikhianati dan dilaporkan, semua hampa diluar sana...Jika kita tidak bisa berbicara kepada siapapun, kita pasti akan gila.”

“Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”

“Only an object can suffer, but phenomenally subject and object, being one whole, spin like a coin so that the intervals between pile et face (heads and tails) are imperceptible. Consequently pain, or pleasure, appear to be continual.Noumenally, on the contrary, there is no object to suffer pain or pleasure. Noumenon is invulnerable, and cannot be otherwise. Noumenon is the unmanifested aspect of what we, sentient beings, are: Phenomenon is our manifestation.”

“Seated alone by shadowy bamboos,I strum my lyre and laugh aloud;None know that I am here, deep in the woods;Only the bright moon comes to shine on me.”

“Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.”

“As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born. ”