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

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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

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

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

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

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

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

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

The obstacle is the path.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

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

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

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.