For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

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

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.