“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.”

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.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

I’ve been blessed to be one of those guys who’s looked at as a fashion-forward type of guy.

I take that back. If hank wants to shoot scott, he has my blessing.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I’m just blessed to be in this position.

I think I’m that guy. I’m still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, ‘Life is good,’ to the world.

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.