When you practice zazen you should not try to attain anything. You should just sit in the complete calmness of your mind and not rely on anything.

The dharma is not in the books. If you want to find the dharma, look in your mind.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

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

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

Since all things are empty of inherent existence, anything is possible. If things had inherent existence, nothing would be possible.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The practice of meditation is not about achieving states of bliss but about seeing things as they really are.

Though the view should be as vast as the sky, keep your conduct as fine as barley flour.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

Our task is not to seek for love but to find all the barriers within ourselves that we have built against it.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

The Noble Eightfold Path is a path of training: training in ethical conduct, training in mental discipline, and training in wisdom.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

What Zen wants us to do is to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

Study the Buddha's teaching which is present in every moment.

To see the truth, do not be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The practice of mindfulness is the practice of being alive in the present moment.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.