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

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

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

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.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?