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

If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life, without using it for your own sake. Why is it so? Your life is a fortunate outcome of the continuous practice of the past. You should express your gratitude immediately.

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