Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

A garden is never finished.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.