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Living beings falsely discriminate,
That is the Buddha, this is the world.
For the one who comprehends the Dharma-nature,
There is neither Buddha nor world.

Avatamsaka Sutra

High rises the Eastern Peak
Soaring up to the blue sky.
Among the rocks, an empty hollow,
Secret, still, mysterious!
Uncarved and unhewn,
Screened by nature with a roof of clouds.
Time and seasons, what things are you,
Bringing to my life ceaseless change?
I will lodge forever in this hollow
Where springs and autumns unheeded pass.

~ Tao Yun (~400)

Bodhisattvas receive and uphold all the teachings, and yet do not give rise to attachment to the teachings.

Bodhisattvas think, “I should contemplate dharmadhatus as illusions, all Buddhas as shadows, all Bodhisattvas as dreams, the Buddha’s teachings as echoes, all worlds like illusions."

Avatamsaka Sutra

This old monk meditates and
Rests in the empty mountains
In loneliness and stillness
Through the days and nights.
When I leave the pure cliffs,
I am distracted by callers
The world of people is first
And always the world of people.

~ Seigan Soi (1588-1661)

Were there no grasping of any sort of kind whatever by anyone at anything, that is to say,

no grasping at the things of sense,
no grasping through speculative opinions,
no grasping after mere ritual and rule,
no grasping through theories of the soul,

then there being no grasping whatever,
would there, owing to this cessation of grasping,
be any appearance of becoming?

Dialogues of the Buddha

@rookie54 said
Living beings falsely discriminate,
That is the Buddha, this is the world.
For the one who comprehends the Dharma-nature,
There is neither Buddha nor world.

Avatamsaka Sutra

Be the master wherever you are,
and then wherever you stand is reality,
and situations that come up cannot move you.

~ Lin Chi (d 867)

@rookie54 said
Be the master wherever you are,
and then wherever you stand is reality,
and situations that come up cannot move you.

~ Lin Chi (d 867)

Putting my right and left hands together as one,
I bow.
Just bow to become one with Buddha and God.
Just bow to become one with everything I encounter.
Just bow to become one with all myriad things.
Just bow as life becomes life.

Uchiyama Roshi’s death poem

Searching for praise and honor
Keeps mankind restlessly moving,
But in the warm sun and peaceful wind,
Things renew themselves naturally.
Needing no human control,
The spring brightness is both pale and deep;
In the mountains of endless rest,
There is a single tranquil person.

~ Gesshu Soko (1618-1696)

Peace like a river
Love like a mother
Live like a warrior
Die like a peace

The middle way involves a willingness to accept either rebirth or no rebirth of consciousness in another life.

But the problem of rebirth of craving is the most universal, as well as the most significant and most urgent, for it pertains to all times, regardless of whether it be this moment, this life, or future lives if there are to be future lives.

If one has solved this problem and is freed from craving, then all other problems cease to be problems, for with respect to them there is no longer any craving.

Dialogues of the Buddha

This teaching says that all sentient beings possess the true mind of emptiness and quiescence, whose nature is without exception fundamentally pure. Bright, unobscured, astute and constantly aware, it constantly abides to the end of time.

It is called Buddha-nature; it is also called tathagatagarbha and mind-ground. Because from time without beginning it has been concealed by false thoughts, sentient beings cannot realize it, and thereby experience birth and death.

The Supremely Enlightened, feeling pity for them, manifests in the world to proclaim that all dharmas characterized by birth and death are empty, and to reveal the complete identity of this mind with all the Buddhas.

~ Tsung-mi (780)

Illusion and enlightenment depend on each other,
Principle and actuality are ultimately the same.
All day long, sutras without words,
Through the night, Zen without sitting.
Warblers sing in the willow grove by the river,
A village dog barks at the moon.
I have no one to share my feelings
So I just write what is in my heart.

~ Ryokan (1758-1831)

When hungry, eat.
When cold, put on clothes
Even children three feet tall,
Are aware of these things.
The teaching beyond doctrine
Is transparently clear;
Why should you have your eyes open
And still act foolishly?

~ Isshi Bunshu (1608-1645)