There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.