When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

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.

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.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.