But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.