“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.”

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.

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

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.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

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?

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‘human stratum’ may not be homogeneous.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.