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.

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.

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

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

The way that helps will not be the same; it changes according to the situation.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.