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

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.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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