So we could quite safely categorize aggression and impatience as anti-art, the source of crudeness.

When that psychological aggression is transmuted into the energy of artistic talent, you begin to realize that you can do all kinds of things—to your amazement.

In other words, when we want to produce a work of art, we should do it all the way.

Enriching is the intrinsic energy of our state of mind. It is the idea of dignity, or in Tibetan, ziji.

Enlightened mind consists of prajna, or “discriminating awareness,” and karuna, or friendship and kindness.

A sense of nonthinking is necessary at the same time as a sense of the thinking process.

That sense of suspension is the ground, according to the non-reference-point view of how to perceive absolute symbolism. That experience of suspension is the canvas or the blackboard where you paint your pictures, your symbolism. It

Ironically, the words that we have come up with to describe Great Eastern Sun—humbleness and genuineness—are the opposite of chauvinism and aggression. Other qualities associated with Great Eastern Sun are a sense of precision, warmth, kindness, and gentleness.

when heaven and earth have a good relationship, humans have a good relationship with them.