Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

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

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

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.