“A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.”
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
“Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”
“Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue. ”
“Take ACTION! When we DO NOT take action, our potentiality becomes the soil that houses the seeds of our regret.”
“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”