If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

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.

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

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.