Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

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