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 it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.

We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

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.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.