Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.