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.

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.