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

To have a body is to suffer.

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.

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight