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.

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.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

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

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.