Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

Discipline is creating the situation.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

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

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.