When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.