When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

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

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.