To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.