Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.