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.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].