Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

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

In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

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