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

Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

When you sit, everything sits with you.

Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"