To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

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

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.