Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Shunryu SuzukiEven though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.
Shunryu SuzukiSo 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.
Shunryu SuzukiTo renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.
Shunryu Suzuki