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

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

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

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.