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

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.