Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.

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.

You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

When the world stops, time stops.

Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.

Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God.