When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

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.

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

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

Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.

Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.