Just As Parents Care For Their Children,

Working With Plants, Trees, Fences And Walls, If They Practice Sincerely They Will Attain Enlightenment.

When Other Sects Speak Well Of Zen, The First Thing That They Praise Is Its Poverty.

What You Think In Your Own Mind To Be Good, Or What People Of The World Think Is Good, Is Not Necessarily Good.

Since We Are Provided With Both A Body And A Mind, We Grasp Onto The Physical Forms We See. Since We Are Provided With Both A Body And A Mind, We Cling To The Sounds We Hear. As A Consequence, We Make Ourselves Inseparable From All Things, Yet We Are Not Like Some Shadowy Figure 'lodging' In A Mirror Or Like The Moon In Water. Whenever We Witness What Is On The One Side, Its Opposite Side Will Be In Darkness.

If You Cannot Find The Truth Right Where You Are, Where Else Do You Expect To Find It?