What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.