For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

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.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.