The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
The essence of the Way is detachment.
Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
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.
To have a body is to suffer.
Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
Words are illusions.
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Your nature is the Buddha.
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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.
But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
All phenomena are empty.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Your mind is nirvana.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
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.
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.
But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
