We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.

Just continue in your calm, ordinary practice and your character will be built up.

But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver’s will, before...

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

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Our effort in our practice should be directed from achievement to non-achievement.

Concentration is not to try hard to watch something… Concentration means freedom… In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing...