Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.