Much understand, much problem. Little understand, little problem. Complete DON'T KNOW, no problem.
He dies, I die - Where can we meet?
Sitting motionless, nothing happening — Spring coming, grass growing.
Never comparable to anything: How can I preach it?
Meeting Sakyamuni, kill him! Meeting Bodhidharma, kill him, too!
From outside the shoes, to scratch where you itch.
Angry waves: not so dangerous as man's mind.
Watch your own steps!
Fire is hot; water, cold.
Not flattered by praise, not hurt by blame.
What is the color of the wind? Where does the rain come from?
However priceless, a piece of gold In the eye is nothing but grit.
Ordinary mind is the Way.
From the origins nothing exists.
Seeking words, chasing phrases: When do you have time for satori?
Where no Buddha, the Buddha works.
With the slightest yes and no, Mind is lost in confusion.
It rains: the earth wet.
When cold say cold; When hot say hot.
Teaching beyond teaching; No leaning on words and letters.
No good thought, no evil thought.
A hungry dog bites a dry bone.
Produce Mind Without attachment to anything.
Ten thousand laws end in One : Don't stick to that, either!
Killing or vivifying is in these hands.
Spring opens a hundred flowers — for whom?
Once you preach, the point is gone.
To call heaven earth makes it earth? To name earth heaven makes it heaven?
Everything is true just as it is: Why dislike it? Why hate?
The Billion Worlds, a bubble on the sea; All Buddhas and Patriarchs, a flash of lightning.
Worldly passions inseparable from satori.
Coming back with satori but everything just as before: Hermit Mountain's drizzle and mist, Crooked River's waves . . .
Spring comes: grass grows.
All things that exist are like a dream, a phantom, a bubble, a reflection; they are like dew or lightning; thus should you view them.
Diamond Sutra
Rich food doesn't tempt the man who has eaten.
Reach for it, and you'll miss; let it loose, and it'll follow.
Seek satori within yourself! Where else?
Open your mouth— instantly wrong; Move your tongue— against the truth.
Need fire? Best strike a flint. Water? Dig a well.
Heaven, earth, and I: the same root. Everything and I: one thing.
No ugliness in a loved child.
Merciful words come out of the merciful mouth.
Go a thousand miles not moving a foot!
Pictured rice cakes dissolve hunger?
A smiling face offers mercy; A troubled mind contains vicious poison.
One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand.
Watch all sentient beings with merciful eyes.
The man who's drunk water Knows if it's cool or warm.
One snowflake falling on a burning furnace.
Walking is Zen; sitting, too.
