Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

What's the difference between yes and no?

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

The highest truth cannot be put into words.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.