"夫坐禪者，直令人開明心地，安住本分，是名露本來面目，亦名現本地風光。"

"這箇是阿誰，不曾知名，非可為身，非可為心。"

"不得好說法教化，散心亂念從是而起。"

"叢林之中，善知識處，深山幽谷，可依止之。綠水青山，是經行之處。谿邊樹下，是澄心之處也。觀無常不可忘，是勵探道心也。"

"坐禪觀舉體無二，抛下萬事，休息諸緣，佛法世法不管，道情世情雙忘，無是非無善惡，何防止之有乎，此是心地無相戒也。"

"直須休去歇去，冷湫湫地去，"

"As if to say— "Isn't it true for men, as well: that the more the words, the less they are of value?"— the cuckoo does…"

"When I look upon the rich sheen of summer hairs in my new brush, I am saddened by a deer drawn at night to a hunter's…"

"I had forgotten— as I kept on forgetting to remind myself that those who vow to forget are the ones who can't forget."

"All these images from a world of long ago— of what good are they? Pine winds, come—please blow away these unforgotten…"