Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.
Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.