What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.