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.
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. It’s like the root of a tree. All a tree’s fruit and flowers, branches and leaves depend on...
People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let the...
A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha...
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
