Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

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.

If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.

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.

What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.