Just to be alive is enough.

The world is its own magic.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

To live is enough.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

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

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

The state of mind that exists when you sit in the right posture is, itself, enlightenment.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

The most important things in our practice are our physical posture and our way of breathing.

The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.