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

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

If you forget yourself, you become the universe.

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

Your own treasure house contains everything you need; why search outside?

The obstacle is the path.

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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

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

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

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

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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