The Buddha Is Simply Yourself

"Whether you are going or staying

Sitting or lying down,

The whole world is your own self.

You must find out

Whether the mountains,

Rivers, grass, and forests 

Exist in your own mind

Or exist outside it.

Analyze the ten thousand things,

And when you take

This to the limit,

You will come to the limitless;

When you search into it,

You come to the end of search,

Where thinking goes no

Further and distinctions vanish.

When you smash the citadel of doubt,

Then the Buddha is simply yourself."

- Daikaku (1213-1279)