If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

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

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.