While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.