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

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

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.

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.

Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.

Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.

You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.

The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.