Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

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.

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.

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

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 no harmful actions, do not become attached to the cycle of death and rebirth, show kindness, respect the old and have compassion for the young, do not have a heart that rejects or a heart that covets and have no worry or sadness in your heart. This is what is called enlightenment. Do not seek it elsewhere.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening