The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.