There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

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.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

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

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.