The True Person Is Not Anyone In

That You Carry Yourself Forward And Experience The Myriad Things Is Delusion. That The Myriad Things Come Forward And Experience Themselves Is Awakening

The Recognition Of The Coming And Going Of Things Is A First Step In Training And Practice.

There Are Thousands Upon Thousands Of Students Who Have Practiced Meditation And Obtained Its Fruits. Do Not Doubt Its Possibilities Because Of The Simplicity Of The Method. If You Can Not Find The Truth Right Where You Are, Where Else Do You Expect To Find It?

No Matter How Bad A State Of Mind You May Get Into, If You Keep Strong And Hold Out, Eventually The Floating Clouds Must Vanish And The Withering Wind Must Cease.

In The Assemblies Of The Enlightened Ones There Have Been Many Cases Of Mastering The Way Bringing Forth The Heart Of Plants And Trees; This Is What Awakening The Mind For Enlightenment Is Like. The Fifth Patriarch Of Zen Was Once A Pine-planting Wayfarer; Rinzai Worked On Planting Cedars And Pines On Mount Obaku. . . . Working With Plants, Trees, Fences And Walls, If They Practice Sincerely They Will Attain Enlightenment.