the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die