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

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

So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves. That is why we have teaching. But the teaching is not ourselves. It is some explanation of ourselves. To study the teaching is to know yourselves. That is why we do not ever attach to the teaching, or to the teacher. The moment you meet a teacher you should leave the teacher, and you should be independent. You want a teacher so that you can be independent. So you study yourselves. You have the teacher for yourselves, not for the teacher.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.