Zazen is not step-by-step meditation. Rather it is simply the easy and pleasant practice of a Buddha, the realization of the Buddha's Wisdom.

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice. It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.

The ocean does not reject any water; therefore it is great. The mountain does not select its stones; therefore it is great.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.