When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. 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.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.