Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.