Linji Yixuan

Línjì Yìxuán (臨済義玄; Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen; died 866) was the founder of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty China.

Quotes

 * Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place. (Translator unsourced.)
 * <爾且隨處作主. 立處皆真. > [T47n1985_p0498a19] from Linji lu (臨濟録, Record of Linji).
 * Just make yourself master of every situation, and wherever you stand is the true [place]. (Trans: R.F. Sasaki, Ed. T. Kirchner, The Record of Linji).
 * If you master any situation you are in, wherever you stand, all becomes true. (Trans: Irmgard Schloegl, The Zen Teaching of Rinzai).