The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.