1905-1971, Japanese Zen Master
Acceptance
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.
Belief / Religion
True religion cannot be obtained by seeking for some good; that is the way to attain something in a material sense. The way to work on spiritual things is quite different. Even to talk about spiritual things is not actually spiritual but a kind of substitute.
Cause
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind , 1970Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004