Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.

Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.