Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

Just to be alive is enough.

When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

The true understanding is that the practice itself is enlightenment.

To live is enough.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

Our practice cannot be perfect, but without being discouraged by this, we should continue it. This is the secret of practice.

The real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

Each of you is perfect the way you are... and you can use a little improvement.