One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form is emptiness." That all things are provided for by nothingness is the meaning of the phrase, "Emptiness is form." One should not think that these are two seperate things.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.