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

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

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.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

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 think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.