To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

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.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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.

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

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