“When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.”

Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!

Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.

The basis of art is change in the universe.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.

Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.