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.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.

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

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

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.