In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given… - Shunryu Suzuki

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

A Zen master once said, “To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile.” This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom.

"When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world.
When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world.
The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless.
We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually,
There is just one whole world."

The trying to do something is in itself enlightenment. When we are in difficulty or distress, there we have enlightenment.