“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves.”

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons.

Zazen is the dharma gate of great ease and joy.

A Zen master's life is one continuous mistake.