Quotes from D?gen Zenji

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

To know yourself is to forget yourself.

A Zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')