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.

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.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.