Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

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

Time goes from present to past.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.