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

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

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. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. 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.

Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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