Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with willpower to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where there can be failure, and there will …

- Takuan Soho

Sever the edge between before and after.

- Takuan Soho

When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort …

- Takuan Soho

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

- Takuan Soho

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

- Takuan Soho

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing…

- Takuan Soho

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

- Takuan Soho

Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat …

- Takuan Soho

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

- Takuan Soho