Sitting in silence transforms hearts into mirrors that hold nothing. When we awaken to this awareness, all areas are like images in our mirror: What comes does not stick, what…

If someone asks, "What is true Zen?" there is no need for you to open your mouth to explain. Show all aspects of your zazen posture, then the spring wind…

When the mind dwells on nothing, the true mind appears. - Diamond Sutra

When you surrender to the exhalation and let the inhalation fill you, in a harmonious coming and going, nothing remains but a zafu under the empty sky, the weight of…

Kinhin - Walking Like Ducks - Kodo Sawaki

Winter fog and autumn mist, dew, clouds, spring rain are the true kesa that envelops our body. - Yoka Gengaku

The vast, unlimited sky is not disturbed by the coming and going of the white clouds. - Sekito Kisen

When you are in the dojo with spiritual friends to practise the great and precious zazen, you must not forget this favour. It is more important than earthly ties, which…

You should carry within you a mindset that transfers the Buddha's teaching to your whole life and builds temples out of vegetables yourselves. - Dogen Kigen

In a grain of wheat I have enclosed the whole universe. In my pot I boil mountains and rivers. - Taisen Deshimaru