When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.

You and I are just swinging doors.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

We sit to express our true nature

Do not be too interested in Zen.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is.[...]Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.