If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.

The third stage is no thought.