When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

The world is its own magic.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.

Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.