“Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.”

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.

In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.

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.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

I haven’t got any Buddhism. I live by letting things happen.

A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Leap, and the net will appear.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.