We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

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

Think with your whole body.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

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.