Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.

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