For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.

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.

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.

Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.