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

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.

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

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

Think with the whole body.

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

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