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

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love...Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

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.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.