When all the Buddhas manifest themselves in the world, they proclaim nothing but the One Mind.

~ Huang-Po

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

~ Huang-Po

Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook.

~ Zen Proverb

Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

~ Zen Proverb

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.

~ Zen Proverb

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.

~ Fen-Yang

Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

~ Alan Watts

Friends I tell you this: there is no Buddha, no spiritual path to follow, no training and no realisation. What are you so feverishly running after ? Putting a head on top of your own head, you blind idiots! Your head is right where it should be. Your trouble lies in your not believing in yourselves enough. Because you don’t believe in yourselves you are knocked here and there by all the conditions in which you find yourselves. Being enslaved and turned around by objective situations, you have no freedom whatever. You are not masters of yourselves. Stop turning to the outside and don’t be attached to my words either. Just cease clinging to the past and hankering after the future. This will be better than ten years pilgrimage.

~ Lin Chi

If you want to perceive and understand objectively,
just don't allow yourself to be confused by people.
Detach from whatever you find inside or outside
yourself and only then will you attain liberation.
When you are not entangled in things, you pass
through freely to autonomy.

~ Zen Master Lin-chi