Dainin Katagiri Quotes

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that’s why we suffer.

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.

Whatever you think is delusion.

Make positive effort for the good.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

The moment between before and after is called Truth.