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Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.
If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
To what shall I liken the world? Moonlight, reflected In dewdrops, Shaken from a crane's bill.
To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup.
Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.
The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.
Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.
I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.
No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.