There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
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 see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself.
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.
All that’s visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.
Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.
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.
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.