It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

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.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

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

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.