There should not be any particular teaching. Teaching is in each moment.
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.
The world is its own magic.
After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.
When something dies is the greatest teaching.
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.
Each of us must make our own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.
A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.
Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.
If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.
You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?