Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.