If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

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

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.