Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

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

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.