Discipline is creating the situation.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

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

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.