In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.