Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.