In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Just as when water is frozen in to a form as ice and then melts - so at the time of death, there is no death. The spirit simply changes form.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

When you could get angry with someone and separate yourself from them, don't do that. If you have people who are difficult to deal with, be neither attracted nor repulsed. Go a step higher.

There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.