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.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

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

Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.