If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.