Teaching beyond teaching; No leaning on words and letters.

Killing or vivifying is in these hands.

Watch all sentient beings with merciful eyes.

What is the color of the wind? Where does the rain come from?

No good thought, no evil thought.

When cold say cold; When hot say hot.

However priceless, a piece of gold In the eye is nothing but grit.

Seek satori within yourself! Where else?

Ten thousand laws end in One : Don't stick to that, either!

Produce Mind Without attachment to anything.

Go a thousand miles not moving a foot!

Everything is true just as it is: Why dislike it? Why hate?

Sitting motionless, nothing happening — Spring coming, grass growing.

Rich food doesn't tempt the man who has eaten.

Meeting Sakyamuni, kill him! Meeting Bodhidharma, kill him, too!

One blind man leads many blind men Into the fire hole hand in hand.

Watch your own steps!

Spring comes: grass grows.

The Billion Worlds, a bubble on the sea; All Buddhas and Patriarchs, a flash of lightning.

Seeking words, chasing phrases: When do you have time for satori?

It rains: the earth wet.

No ugliness in a loved child.

Not flattered by praise, not hurt by blame.

Walking is Zen; sitting, too.

Reach for it, and you'll miss; let it loose, and it'll follow.

Heaven, earth, and I: the same root. Everything and I: one thing.

He dies, I die - Where can we meet?

Day after day a very good day: Winds come and trees bow.

Angry waves: not so dangerous as man's mind.

The man who's drunk water Knows if it's cool or warm.

Cast away Dharma, Not to mention non-Dharma.

To call heaven earth makes it earth? To name earth heaven makes it heaven?

From outside the shoes, to scratch where you itch.

Never comparable to anything: How can I preach it?

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.

Open your mouth— instantly wrong; Move your tongue— against the truth.

With the slightest yes and no, Mind is lost in confusion.

Merciful words come out of the merciful mouth.

A smiling face offers mercy; A troubled mind contains vicious poison.

From the origins nothing exists.

Spring opens a hundred flowers — for whom?

Worldly passions inseparable from satori.

One snowflake falling on a burning furnace.

Much understand, much problem. Little understand, little problem. Complete DON'T KNOW, no problem.

Where no Buddha, the Buddha works.

Ordinary mind is the Way.

Pictured rice cakes dissolve hunger?

Need fire? Best strike a flint. Water? Dig a well.

Fire is hot; water, cold.

A hungry dog bites a dry bone.