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Without a rope, 

people bind themselves.

Each time you bring it up,

each time it is new.

From the root,

we get the essence.

It is better not to begin.

Having begun, it is better to go all the way.

There is a man who eats sparingly, 

but is never hungry.

There is a man who is always eating,

but is never full.

In a well that has not been dug,
Water is rippling from a spring that does not flow;
There, someone with no shadow or form,
Is drawing the water.

The ground that is not dark or light.
The tree that has no roots.
The valley that has no echo.

Empty-handed I go and lo!
the spade handle is in my hand.

When I pass over the bridge the water flows not,
but the bridge flows.

Facing each other,

a thousand miles apart.

Right now, right here:

Facing each other.

Everywhere 

like a burning house.

No cold spot -

in a boiling cauldron.

Washing jewels

in the mud.

Eyes wide - entering

the boiling water -

with dignity!

Shouldering the plank -

till death.

To open eyes wide - lying 

in the coffin.

Entering fire, he is not burned,
entering water he is not drowned.

On top of a flagpole, a cow gives birth to a calf.

Stop the sound of a distant temple bell.

Put out the fire a thousand miles away.

Turn a somersault on a needle's point.

Today is the eighth day of the month,
tomorrow is the thirteenth.

You are not allowed to travel at night,

but you must arrive before daybreak.

Ride your horse along the edge of the sword
Hide yourself in the middle of the flames
Blossoms of the fruit tree will bloom in fire
The sun rises in the evening.

On the saddle, 

no man;

Underneath it,

no horse.

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

The accomplished hermit

hides in the town;

The immature hermit

hides in the mountain.

Where to hide?

In a needle's eye.

Hide yourself in
each and every thing!

To walk in the dark

in one's best clothes.

One inch ahead of the darkness.

To bounce a ball

on the rapids.

Hopeless fellows -

using their heads to looks for their heads!

Following an arrow around a tree

Nothing is anything except what you call it

but what you call it is not what it is.

If you understand, things are just as they are;

if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

When you point a finger at the moon,

gaze at the moon, not your finger.

With no bird singing

The mountain is yet more still.

The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

Sometimes even in the driest hole

one can find water.

Hearing one,

knowing ten.

Though the bamboo forest is dense,

water flows through it freely.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge,

he becomes a sage;

when a sage attains understanding,

he is an ordinary man.

Walk without feet;

fly without wings;

think without mind.