No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. — Zen proverbs

"When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing."

"You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?"

"A Zen master named Gisan asked a young student to bring him a pail of water to cool his bath. The student brought the water and, after cooling the bath, threw on to the ground the little that was left over. "You dunce!" the master scolded him. "Why didnt you give the rest of the water to the plants? What right have you to waste even a drop of water in this temple? The young student attained Zen in that instant. He changed his name to Tekisui, which means a drop of water."

"Coming empty-handed, going empty-handed, that is human. When you are born, where do you come from? When you die, where do you go? Life is like a floating cloud which appears. Death is like a floating cloud which disappears. The floating cloud itself originally does not exist. Life and death, coming and going, are also like that. But there is one thing which always remains clear. It is pure and clear, not depending on life and death. Then what is the one pure and clear thing?"

"Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving."

"The Layman was sitting in his thatched cottage one day studying the sutras "Difficult, difficult," he said; "like trying to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree" "Easy, easy," Mrs Pang said; "like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed" "Neither difficult nor easy," Ling Zhao said; "on the hundred grass tips, the great Masters meaning"