Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
To have a body is to suffer.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
All phenomena are empty.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist.
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it’s the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren’t real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.
Words are illusions.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.
Your mind is nirvana.
People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
