Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils.

Be light, light, light - full of light!

In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.