In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.