Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.
You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.
Time goes from present to past.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
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.