If you think that if you practice hard, you will attain enlightenment sooner [laughs], and if you are lazy in your practice, you will att...

To polish a tile. That is our practice. Even though you polish it, a tile is a tile [laughs]. But to polish is our practice. It doesn’t ma...

When Baso was practicing zazen: Nangaku said, “Why do you practice? What is the purpose of your practice?” “I want to be a buddha,” he sa...

The Sixth Patriarch emphasized pairs of opposites. He pointed out thirty-six pairs of opposites: heaven and earth, good and bad, something...

The question which do you hit, the cart or the horse was a question given to Baso. His famous statement was, “Although you speak quite wel...

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When you accept the problem, you accept your true nature, which is working on it. When you accept your true nature, fundamentally there is...

To accept the dualistic activity is to find the oneness. When you do not accept it, that is duality. No way to solve it—it will be just de...

When you want to decide, “This is good or this is bad. This is small mind, this is big mind,” you have duality already. But actually, ther...

[Responding to a student] “Seems to be.” Not exactly so but seems to be. That’s very good [laughter]. It seems to be small mind, you know....