Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

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

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

An enlightened person does not ignore things and does not stick to things, not even to the truth.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

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.