To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

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

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

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

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

The essence of the Way is detachment.