When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.