Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

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.

Time goes from present to past.