Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

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

In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart of plants and trees; this is what awakening the mind for enlightenment is like. The fifth patriarch of Zen was once a pine-planting wayfarer; Rinzai worked on planting cedars and pines on Mount Obaku. . . . Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

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

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.