As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

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.

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

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

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.