Do Not Be Amazed By The True

If You Cannot Find The Truth Right Where You Are, Where Else Do You Expect To Find It?

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.

A Fool Sees Himself As Another, But A Wise Man Sees Others As Himself.

That The Self Advances And Confirms The Ten Thousand Things Is Called Delusion; That The Ten Thousand Things Advance And Confirm The Self Is Called Enlightenment.

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