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

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.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening