What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

What is the sound of one hand?