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.

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.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

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

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.