If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.
To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
When you sit, everything sits with you.
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.