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

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

Discipline is creating the situation.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.