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.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

We must always be disturbed by the truth.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

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

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