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.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.