If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

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

To have a body is to suffer.

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

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

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