Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.