Prefer To Be Defeated In The Presence

If You Do Not Get It From Yourself, Where Will You Go For It?

The Zazen I Speak Of Is Not Learning Meditation. It Is Simply The Dharma Gate Of Repose And Bliss, The Practice-realization Of Totally Culminated Enlightenment. It Is The Manifestation Of Ultimate Reality. Traps And Snares Can Never Reach It. Once Its Heart Is Grasped, You Are Like The Dragon When He Gains The Water, Like The Tiger When She Enters The Mountain. For You Must Know That Just There (in Zazen) The Right Dharma Is Manifesting Itself And That, From The First, Dullness And Distraction Are Struck Aside.

Look For Buddha Outside Your Own Mind, And Buddha Becomes The Devil.

Because Mountains Are High And Broad, The Way Of Riding The Clouds Is Always Reached In The Mountains; The Inconceivable Power Of Soaring In The Wind Comes Freely From The Mountains

What Is Reality? An Icicle Forming In Fire.