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

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

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.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

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