Ten Thousand Things

Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There’s nothing in the universe other than our self. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it’s the only thing there is, how can we talk about it??
- Taizan Maezumi

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket — then you will naturally be happy and at peace.
- Yaunwu

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. It is peoples’ fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
- Brian Perkins