What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

What is the sound of one hand?

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.