“Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma”

“The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it.”

“Take karma, make dharma.”

“Explaining many profound dharmas is easy; living them is hard.”

“Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.”

“The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.”