What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

Time goes from present to past.

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.