Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

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

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

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

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.

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.