Quotes

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word "water" is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

Religion is always falling apart.

So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

And then the Monks gently flog you with a bamboo stick. Not in the sexual overtones way of Public School, the monks are cool about it.

Inferior wu-wei tries so hard to be wu-wei that it isn't.

One thing we know is that after we die, people are going to go on being born. Which is kind of Reincarnation.

Many important discoveries result from people playing quite freely with Fantasy.

Tic tac toe isn't a very good game, it basically comes down to Toin Cossing. Toin? Coin tossing, sorry!