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.

The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

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.

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

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

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

Think with the whole body.