Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.