Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?

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

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.