If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

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."

Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

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.