Look for the things in your life that bring you stillness and happiness, not the things that make you crazy. Look inside yourself and look for that perfect stillness.

What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

The Buddha gave his first talks, and three or four ascetics became his first disciples. They recognized his enlightenment.

Success will come about because you are in a higher state of mind. If you create good karma, then you will go into higher states of mind.

That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.