There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

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

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

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

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

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.