Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are. When our thinking is soft, it is called imperturbable thinking. This kind of thinking is always stable. It is called mindfulness.

That Was Zen; This Is Tao

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.