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

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

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.

I think you're all enlightened, until you open your mouths.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.