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

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

The wake doesn't drive the ship

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.