The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.