Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.