You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something.' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.