Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.
Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.
Time goes from present to past.
We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.
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.