The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.

We die, and we do not die.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

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.

A garden is never finished.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.