Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

When you sit, everything sits with you.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.