respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.

Death is [...] the blackboard on which life is written.

Do anything totally and it is finished; you will not carry a psychological memory of it. Do anything incompletely and it hangs with you.

Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.