From 'Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon':
It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
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The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
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It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.
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There is no becoming. ALL IS.
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The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
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It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false 'me' no longer identifies with his suffering.
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We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
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Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
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Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences.
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The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
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Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
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How many of the ways (disciplines, exercises, practices) recommended as helpful, or even necessary, for the attainment of Satori are not in fact consequences of that state erroneously suggested as means?
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There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.
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