Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

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.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

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

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.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.