Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

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

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.