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

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

Without darkness, there is no light. Without the path, there is no arrival.

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

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.

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

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.

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Where is the place that your original face has not yet emerged?

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

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.

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Everybody has the light of Buddha within, but they don't look for it.

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