There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.

Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention, if you don't look in the direction of your thoughts, you meditate.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.

Existence is the awareness of awareness.