“Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.”

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.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.

At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

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

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.

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

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

Someone who seeks the Way doesn’t look beyond himself.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

The mind’s capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

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

He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it’s not going to work out.

This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don’t know where I’m going. And I record everything.

I listen to all types of music so I’m influenced by everything.

You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.