To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

We die, and we do not die.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

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.

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