Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

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

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

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

We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

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

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

The world is its own magic.

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

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 state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment.

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

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

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.

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

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

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

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

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