Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.
What Is, is more important than What Should Be.
Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever-changing world.
Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.
The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.
True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.
To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.
It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish what?
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
Either push your limits or die.
A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one’s status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.