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

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

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

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