Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.