When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

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