Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

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.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.