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.

When you walk in the mist, you get wet.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.