When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

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

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

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