When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel. But just to work, just to live in this world with this understanding is the most important point, and that is our practice. That is true zazen.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.