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.

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

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

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.

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

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

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

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

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

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

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

All phenomena are empty.

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.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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

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

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

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

Your mind is nirvana.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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

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

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

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

Words are illusions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

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

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

To have a body is to suffer.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.