The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.