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.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we cling to the sounds we hear. As a consequence, we make ourselves inseparable from all things, yet we are not like some shadowy figure 'lodging' in a mirror or like the moon in water. Whenever we witness what is on the one side, its opposite side will be in darkness.

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