If you want to read a letter from the Buddha’s world, it is necessary to understand Buddha’s world.
We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.
Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha’s whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.
From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears.
If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.
Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live – to exist here and now.
We die, and we do not die.
Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.
It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.
To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.
Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.
Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.
A garden is never finished.