When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

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

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything