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

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

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

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

. . . 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.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.