A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.