"Words are illusions."

"The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity."

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

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

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

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

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

"Your nature is the Buddha."

"Buddhas don't practice nonsense."

"Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood."

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

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

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

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

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

"Your mind is nirvana."

"Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions."

"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."

"Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way."

"The Buddha is your real body, your original mind."

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

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

"Freeing oneself from words is liberation."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."

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

"Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial."

"To have a body is to suffer."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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