Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend.

In life, you can learn a lot by simply watching the water.

I would rather be calm and focused, than human and emotional.

The difference between a trained mind and a free mind is that a trained mind will fail to see just how trained their mind is by tradition, while a free mind has discarded such limitations...

Humans tend to cling on to a picture that was painted in front of their eyes, instead of opening up their mind to the painting that was already there...

Most do not understand what sight is. The mind isn't free. If you don't want to see something, you simply just need to open your eyes.