The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.
People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.
Hell is not punishment, it's training.
Time goes from present to past.
You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.