If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

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

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

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.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.