So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.