Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

When something dies is the greatest teaching.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.