1. My fascination with my own writing... exists only while I write. Once the writing is done, my fascination shifts to someone else's words.
2. The wildflower that catches no one's eye— the sun's first golden light falls there too.
3. In dark cloud upon cloud, a hint of crystal; the earth drinks up the pristine sky.
4. The moment I sit to pray a thousand thoughts arrive, not one of which returns when prayer is over.
5. Learn to walk on water without raising waves...
6. A cockroach flies down and settles on the dead sage's eyes.
'Remove that! Let radiance blaze from those eyes!'
7. How can a sleeping person take in the word of dharma?
8. In the school of the dead, the living learn.
9. In the heat of fire sunlight withers.
What humiliation!
10. Don't seek love, girl! I'm only seeking you.
11. Don't look at the body that way. This body belongs entirely to a lover, not a beggar.
12. When you go away time won't pass. When you come near not even a moment can last!
13. Is winter rain then the answer to all the wanderer's questions?
14. Cannot be grasped, cannot be touched... such joy in seeing— yet it cannot be spoken!
15. In days of terrible famine even finding a beggar is hard!
16. A mosquito inside the net; all the king's power now stands questioned.
17. A chicken's egg... whose future lineage destroyed on whose plate!
18. Step by step oil by oil at death's price life's graph!
19. The AC's cool breeze at sweat's steep cost.
20. Dew forms on rose petals not from mist, but rain!