Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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.

I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.