There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.

There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.