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.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.