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Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.
What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.
A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.
Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
I haven't got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.
Inside the treasury of the dharma eye a single grain of dust.
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
People like what is not true and they don't like what is true.
When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
Just study Buddhism. Don't follow the sentiments of the world.
Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.
In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.
If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.
If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
