Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

The world is its own magic.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

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