If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.