As mortals, we’re ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can’t say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on its root. If you nourish its root, a tree multiplies. If you cut its root, it dies. Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort.
When the mortal mind appears, buddhahood disappears. When the mortal mind disappears, buddhahood appears. When the mind appears, reality disappears. When the mind disappears, reality appears. Whoever knows that nothing depends on anything has found the Way. And whoever knows that the mind depends on nothing is always at the place of enlightenment.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self – deception.
But deluded people don’t realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting.
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something – always, in a word, seeking.
All know the way of prosperity only few walk it.
The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas.
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.
Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.
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. Those who don’t understand, don’t understand understanding. And those who understand, understand not understanding.