We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

Is there any peace without a prayer?

People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love.

In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice.

After working for years, in the end days, people realize its peace for what they have worked for all those years by loosing the peace.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night!

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.