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

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!