The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.