Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.
When you get there, there isn’t any there there.
What you possess, you lose.
When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life – after that you cannot be deceived.
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.
If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.
What was never lost can never be found.
When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.
Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese.
Inner surrender leads to the highest truth.
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.
If something is easy for you, work on it a little. If it’s hard for you, work on it a lot.
The ordinary mind is the way.
