If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

Human beings understand too much.

If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.

If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.