The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.