Quotes from Taigen Dan Leighton

Creative vision, sometimes childlike, enhances our ability to explore and question the reality around us.

Blake encourages us to fully engage our imagination in questioning of reality.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

Zen questioning is a very gentle questioning. It is the kind of questioning that the Colorado River asks the Grand Canyon over centuries and centuries.

Actually, from the Buddhist context all words—and all beings—are verbs, in dynamic activity.

One description of faith involves letting go of our resistance to receiving.

Faith that is allergic to questioning is just fundamentalist blind dogma.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is universal awakening, not dramatic experiences of opening any more than passive states of serenity.