... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

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.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.