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.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

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

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.