Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.