There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

There is a time you can't turn it back. When a person is very destructive, when they hate you tremendously, you have to disassociate with them.

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.