If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance ….

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of ….

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points..

Eternity is the Absolute present..

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..

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….

To live - is that not enough?.

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….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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 ….