In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

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

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

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.

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.

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