Forgetting oneself is opening oneself - Dōgen

When looking at the cup, you see it with your eyes, from your angle, and with your vision, while I see it with my eyes, from my angle, and with my power of vision. There is no possibility of exchanging even our separate ways of looking at a cup. None of your personal experiences can ever be the same as anyone else’s. More so, then, is your way of thinking bound to be different from everyone else’s. When you are born, your world is born with you, and when you die, so dies your entire world. Your true Self includes the entire world you live in, and in this world there is no possibility of exchange.

When we break through the barrier and drop off all limitations, we are no longer concerned with conceptual distinctions.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.