If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

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.

One clings to life although there is nothing to be called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be called death. In reality, there is nothing to be born; consequently, there is nothing to perish.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

To have a body is to suffer.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.