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

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color. This enlightenment is the immutable truth. It is on this orginal truth that our activity, our thinking, and our practice should be based.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.