Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

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

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

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