Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening