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

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

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.

You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself.

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

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.