Time goes from present to past.

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

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 the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.