Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

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.