Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

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

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness, he betrays all Buddhas.