Page 41: "Practice does not mean that whatever you do, even lying down is zazen."
Page 42: "When you sit, you should just sit without being disturbed by your painful legs or sleepiness. That is zazen. But at first it is difficult to accept things as they are. You will be annoyed by the feeling you have in your practice. When you can do everything, whether it is good or bad, without disturbance or without being annoyed by the feeling, that is actually what we mean by 'form is form and emptiness is emptiness'."
Page 43: "For the beginner, the practice needs great effort. ... You must be true to your own way until at last you actually come to the point where you see it is necessary to forget all about yourself. Until you come to this point, it is completely mistaken to think that whatever you do is Zen or that it does not matter whether you practice or not. But if you make your best effort just to continue your practice with your whole mind and body, without gaining ideas, then whatever you do will be true practice."
Page 107: "Because you think you have body or mind, you have lonely feelings, but when you realize that everything is just flashing into the vast universe, you become very strong and your existence becomes very meaningful."
Page 109: "To have nothing in your mind is naturalness. ... When you do something, you should be completely involved in it. You should devote yourself to it completely. Then you have nothing. So if there is no true emptiness in your activity, it is not natural."
