The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up until you have become convinced that you're walking the only path open for you.

- Kosho Uchiyama

Everything you encounter is your life.

- Kosho Uchiyama

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

- Kosho Uchiyama

Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies w…

- Kosho Uchiyama

When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.

- Kosho Uchiyama

Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put o…

- Kosho Uchiyama

The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don…

- Kosho Uchiyama