The more you seek the Buddha and the Dharma, the further away they become.

Gain and loss, yes and no - throw them away in one go.

There is no buddha, no dharma, no training and no realization - what are you so hotly chasing?

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

People either neglect the root and focus on the branches or neglect the reality of the branches and focus only on realization.

Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there.

When you are neither attached to, nor detached from your senses and thoughts, then you enjoy your perfect unobstructed freedom, then you have your seat of enlightenment.

Consider the sunlight. Follow it and, behold, it escapes you; run from it and it follows you close. You can neither possess it nor have done with it. From this example you can understand how it is with the true Nature of all things and, henceforth, there will be no need to grieve or to worry about such things.

Above, below, and around you, all is spontaneously existing, for there is nowhere which is outside the Buddha-Mind.

the real Buddha has no mouth and preaches no Dharma... real hearing requires no ears

Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment.

Whenever Dogen-zenji dipped water from the river, he used only half a dipperful, returning the rest to the river again… when we are one with the water, we intuitively do it in Dogen’s way.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are and to let everything go as it goes.

The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

Try not to achieve anything special. You already have everything in your own pure quality.

The true wisdom of life is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

We should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new.

If we are aware that what we do or what we create is really the gift of the 'big I,' we will not create problems for ourselves or for others.