Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.

It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow, because they have to meet the challenge every moment - and with no security. They have to create an inner phenomenon. With security you need not bother to create anything; the society helps.

Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

Whatever happened yesterday was the past.