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.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.