If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

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

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to make our effort in this moment. This is the most important thing for our practice.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.