The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

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