Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

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

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

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

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

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.