If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.