When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

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