From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

A garden is never finished.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

Even though you have pain in your legs, you can do it. Even though your practice is not good enough, you can do it.

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.

When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here. In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Time goes from present to past.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

We die, and we do not die.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

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.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.