In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

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

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

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

Let us be like the moon with love and beauty.Let us follow the night to love the tranquility and serenity.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

I hate bacon. Everyone thinks I'm insane... maybe I am. I don't like it at all.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear