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

A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

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

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

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.