Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.