. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

To have a body is to suffer.

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Reality has no inside, outside, or middle part.

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