Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Time goes from present to past.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.