Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.

Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

The creature born is the creature dying.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.