Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

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

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.