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

If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.

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 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 world is its own magic.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.