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. |
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship. |
The mind is the root from which all things grow; if you can understand the mind, everything else is included. |
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. |
All know the way; few actually walk it. |
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions and evils, is rooted in the three poisons: Greed, anger and delusion. |
Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking. |
Whoever knows that nothing depends on anything has found the way. And whoever knows that the mind depends on nothing is always at the place of enlightenment. |
Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and Buddhahood the grain. |
A Buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame. |
Those who understand the mind reach enlightenment with minimal effort. |
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. |
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. |
Every suffering is a Buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. |
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. |
At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind. |
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