Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.

Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables.

Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.

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.

Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.