Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

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

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

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.