"I respectfully urge you who study the mystery, do not pass your days and nights in vain." - Shitou Xiqian

"Going forward in practice is a matter of everydayness." - Eihei Dogen


"Provoked by the question 'What is right here?' the way actualizes and buddha ancestors emerge." - Eihei Dogen

"The essence of zen is: Thank you very much; I have no complaints whatsoever." - Reb Anderson

"I don't want to waste this one precious life." - Sonja Gardenswartz

"It is not that there is no practice or no realization, it is just that they cannot be divided." - Nanyue Huairang