When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

- Linji Yixuan

When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinar…

- Linji Yixuan

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

- Linji Yixuan

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

- Linji Yixuan

Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're …

- Linji Yixuan

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

- Linji Yixuan

If you try to grasp Zen in movement, it goes into stillness. If you try to grasp Zen in stillness, it goes into movement. It is like a fish hidden in…

- Linji Yixuan

Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place.

- Linji Yixuan

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth

- Linji Yixuan