No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.