Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.