You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

So with science, it's original idea was to ignore the spiritual or nebulous side of reality and to strictly work on concrete things. Say there's a brick which we cut it in half and then see there's two half's of a brick. If we keep cutting we can then see there's particles and so on and so forth.

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

Buddha might be the one thing that could settle Godzilla down. He might say, "Listen Godzilla, you don't have to do all this. Just chill out a little bit and everything will be fine".

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.