When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

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 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.

The dharma wheel turns from the beginning. There is neither excess nor deficiency. The whole universe is moistened with nectar, and the truth is ready to harvest.

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.

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

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

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.

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

The way is basically perfect. It is not a matter of practice or enlightenment.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

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

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

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

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

When dharma fills your body and mind, you realize that something is missing.

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.

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

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

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