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

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

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

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

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

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.