Quotes by : Peter Matthiessen

In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from....

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of....

In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”“I....

It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike....

Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal....

Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under....

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply,....

Zen has been called the "religion before religion," which is to say that anyone can practice, including....

Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things....