You can’t even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don’t waste time thinking about who’s most talented.

We stop the one who can’t cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

Only a lion can recognize a lion’s roar.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.