As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.