In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

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

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

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.