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

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

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

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.

Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.