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

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

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have attained something.' All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. We can really learn something.

When you sit, everything sits with you.