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.

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.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

Think with your whole body.

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

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.