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

Even if you speak of 'understanding,' this understanding is not a matter of knowledge. It is what fills the entire body and mind.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The time of the past becomes the present, the time of the present becomes the future, the time of the future becomes the present, and the time of the present becomes the past.

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

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfection.

Zazen is not step-by-step meditation. Rather it is simply the easy and pleasant practice of a Buddha, the realization of the Buddha's Wisdom.

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

Whoever told you that practice and enlightenment are separate?

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

In the spring, hundreds of flowers; in autumn, a harvest moon; in the summer, a refreshing breeze; in winter, snow will accompany you. If useless things do not hang in your mind, any season is a good season for you.

To what shall I compare this life? It is like a boat that left at dawn, leaving no trace.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

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

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.