Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice

No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

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

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

An autumn night - don’t think your life didn’t matter.