You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

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

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.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.