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

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one's own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

Eternity is the Absolute present.

I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

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

To live - is that not enough?