Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

To have a body is to suffer.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

MANY roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

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.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.

All phenomena are empty.

The mind is always present. You just don’t see it.

And the Buddha is the person who’s free: free of plans, free of cares.

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.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

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.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Words are illusions.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.

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.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won’t see the Buddha.

You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

People who don’t see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

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.

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.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

As long as you’re enthralled by a lifeless form, you’re not free.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.