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

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'