The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.
Shunryu SuzukiA student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
Shunryu SuzukiWhen my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
Shunryu Suzuki