So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

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

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.