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.

The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

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

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.