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

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

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

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.