When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.

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.

The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.