Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .
The nature of rumor is known to all
The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.
Science is all metaphor.
I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.