A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

- Zenkei Shibayama

True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.

- Zenkei Shibayama

Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

- Zenkei Shibayama

Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of …

- Zenkei Shibayama