When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.