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

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.