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.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

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."

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.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

We must always be disturbed by the truth.