Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

We must always be disturbed by the truth.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.