Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

We die, and we do not die.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.