I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life..

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the b….

Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does no….

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That ….

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities..

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow..

To live - is that not enough?.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking..

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves..

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of lif….

Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering..

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full….

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day..

Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of….

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious..

When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness ….

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity..

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb….

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square….

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect..

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage..