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

Discipline is creating the situation.

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.

The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.

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

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

Instead of criticizing, find out how to help.