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

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

Time goes from present to past.

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

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment