As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours.

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

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.