Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.

Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, just as ice and water are of the same substance.

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

The treasure house within you contains everything, and you are free to use it. You don't need to seek outside.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are nothing but expressions of the one mind. There is nothing else.

Where there is great doubt, there is great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening.

The true path is not difficult; just avoid picking and choosing.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

This very body is the Buddha. And this very earth the lotus paradise.

The mind of the past is ungraspable; the mind of the future is ungraspable; the mind of the present is ungraspable.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

The mind is like a well-forged sword - it adapts to all situations.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

The eye with which I see Buddha is the same eye with which Buddha sees me.