The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.