Yanbing 4:
Yen Ping says, “In terms of size, nothing is greater than the sky. Thus, the Buddha uses it as a metaphor for merit.”
Yanbing 22:
Yen Ping says, “When a dharma can be found, it is called dharma-bondage. Only when no dharma can be found is it called liberation.”
Yanbing 13.4:
Yen Ping says, “When the Buddha had ascended to the Thirty-third Heaven, Maudgalyayana asked a carpenter to carve a likeness of the Buddha. He was able to carve thirty-one attributes but was unable to carve his pure resonant voice. Once a monk asked Nan-ch’uan, ‘What is the pure resonant voice like?’ Nan-ch’uan replied, ‘Who are you planning to cheat?’”
Yanbing 24:
Yen Ping says, “This reminds me of the lines in the Cold Mountain poem (5): ‘Nothing can compare / what more can I say?’”
Yanbing 16.1:
Yen-ping says, “Anyone who can uphold and recite this sutra will see that their own nature is like the sky, and they will at once realize that the nature of their karma is also empty.”
Yanbing 7:
Yen Ping says, “The dharmas taught by the Tathagata are like water. Whether they are hot or cold is something you yourself know but cannot grasp and cannot express to others.”
Yanbing 8:
Yen Ping says, “This is like someone whose lamp lights a million other lamps. Their merit exceeds all those whose lamps they light, whereas making offerings attached to form is like shooting an arrow into the sky. When its force is spent, it falls back to earth.”
Yanbing 8.2:
Yen Ping says, “There is no other sutra except this sutra.”
Yanbing 8.3:
Yen Ping says, “Whatever the Buddha says, he negates.”