We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.