The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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

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

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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

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

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.