When you sit, everything sits with you.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.