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.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

We must exist right here, right now!

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

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.