Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

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

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

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.

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

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

A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.